The Intimacy with God Series Dilemma

Our church's series for this year is all about intimacy with God. But there's a problem. I've been hearing feedbacks from people, by people, I don't mean just the regular attenders, or laity only. I also mean some leaders, and key leaders of the church. People are tired of the series. I am tired of the series as well.

Let me clarify, the church is not teaching any heresies during services. They are teaching the truth. The problem is, they are teaching the truth of what it means to be intimate with God. But there are very few teachings about God, the subject of the intimacy.

Every sunday service, it always seemed to me that the church has focused too much on what we should be experiencing, what we should be feeling, and what God wants us to experience. The series appears to me with a message that God is there for the people, or for the church. But I heard few teachings about we, as the church, as the created beings, are there for God.

Last week, was probably when I heard the worst comment from a member of a church. He said, "After attending a sunday service, I feel like I have wasted time". I know a lot can be said from his comment. But we should understand where he is coming from. The guy I am talking about, has a lot of similarity with Albert Einstein.

When Einstein attended a sunday service during his time, he couldn't reconcile the excellence, the magnificence, the awesomeness, the glory of God, and etc. to the preachings of pastors in the pulpit. Pastors today have talked too much about who we are, what we should experience, and what we should do. We all know there's nothing technically wrong about that, because we know God indeed cares for us.

However, very few have talked about God himself, the subject of the intimate relationship. The fear that I have is when people will start to be intimate with their emotions, and experience rather than God himself.

People have started praying for courage and thinking of the feeling to be stronger as God's answer. They asked for forgiveness, and wait for the feeling to be forgiven. Answered prayer can just be the emotions they are longing for at the moment.