Music in Churches

Have you ever notice that most worship and praise songs are filled with JOY! But unless you’re at a black church there is no joy. All ages for our churches have lost joy! We are all just going though the motions. If you truly think about this, it should sadden you. When we get to heaven are we going to just stand with our hands at our sides singing to God? Or will we be on our knees sing, or jumping with joy as we sing. Why do we act like at a church we can’t dance to the music that gives our JOY in our hearts and lives. I don’t understand this.

Many of our songs state that we “life our hands and sing” but we don’t. We stand there like robots, but I bet robots move better then we do.

My youth group plays awesome music and music we can clap to! And jump around to but no us TEENAGERS just stand there showing NO joy of any kind to our praises we are sing to our savior. And what really makes me sad, is when church is out, and everyone is showing joy(well more like just happiness) about the last movie they saw, or this(non-Christian) concert they went to.

so sad, I wish I knew how to change this. Please let me know if you know how I could! Thanks for reading! ♥ God loves you

A Note To Church

Okay, so I wrote this for my youth group. but truthfully I believe it's something that whole churches need to think about. so here is my little letter to churches! I'd love to hear thoughts on this thanks! ♥

Youth Groups

What is the point of a youth group? What should a youth group be like? Should it just be a group of people who you can fit in with and hang out with? Or should it be a group of teenagers who love God? Well, the real answer is both. We should be a group of teenagers who always are longing to know God more and more, BUT we should also be a group where people can come and hang out and fit in, without being judged!

Often times we judge others without even realizing it. Do you know why? It is because we’ve made it a habit! We will all look at someone and start thinking things like “what is she wearing,” or “can you believe what he just said, WOW!” Now does that sound like a group of teenagers longing for God? No, it doesn’t!

Now I hope as your reading this you’re not thinking of a friend who just said that about someone else! I want you to think about you, when YOU said something just like that!! I’m not writing this because I want you to go out and tell all your friends they need to change, but because I want us all to step up and change ourselves! It just takes ONE person to start a change! That’s what I’m trying to do, by writing this.

Our youth group needs a push! I believe we have all found our little safe zones and don’t want to leave them! Well guess what, I’m pushing you out of your zone! God doesn’t want us to grow for a little bit then die out and just be shadows. We are to be lights! Not burned out dead lights, but lights that are ALIVE AND SHINING BRIGHTLY!!

So you might be asking yourself, what is the point of this letter? Well it’s simple...I want to encourage everyone to step up and out of their safe zones. Step up and say hi to the visitor, don’t sit back and think that someone else will talk to them. Show God’s LOVE! Be brave and have a conversation with someone in the group who has been there forever but you’ve never gotten to know. Show THEM God’s love too! Show it to the world AND to the body of Christ!

My Testimony

I wrote this out and posted it on facebook last October but i thought I'd make it my first post on a new blog. On this blog i'm going to post

stuff about my life as a Christian and just whats on my heart. and what God putting on my heart!

I grow up in a Christian home, where I went to Indian Hills Community Church and was homeschooled. I don’t remember much of my childhood, just little bits and pieces like going to church every Sunday and knowing the right answers.
And then came the time around 6th grade when some people I had known had just past away. And this scared me because I knew I wasn’t saved and I knew that meant I was headed for hell.. this scared me to my knees where I prayed “the Prayer” but not with my heart fully understanding what this meant. So I went on with life thinking if I died I’d go to heaven.
Then in 7th grade I got scared again, because my life wasn’t like my other church friends, during church they all listened and wrote notes while I didn’t really care, I’d write notes to my other unsaved friends and play games. So once again I prayed, and this time I was for sure it was real! I went on the next two years trying to read and pray and asking people how there walk was and just playing the role of a Christian. And if anyone asked “If you died tonight where would you go” in a heartbeat I’d say “Heaven!”
Then freshmen year came around and I still thought I was saved, I loved Cubbies on Wednesdays and Mansion Builders on Thursdays! Then on a Thursday night Duane Nelsen was teaching our Mansion Builders that night, and I can’t remember to well what he was teaching on just that, When God saves us it’s not just from hell but from our sin and who we are as sinners. That kinda hit me, but then I just kept going on with the evening. After study I was talking to a friend and for some reason I got really mad at him, so he finally just stopped me and asked “How can you be acting like this after we had a message like that?” And that’s when it truly it me! I knew at the very moment I was not saved and I was running to the gates of hell. So that day , April 11th, 2008, I prayed the true prayer of life! And Christ really came in my life! Since then I’ve seen growth not as much as I’d like but I am growing one step at a time. But one of the most amazing things to me was high school came my junior year, I meat a kid name Tim Gardner and for some reason I felt like I needed to share my story of salvation with him. So I went on a walk with him and another friend, Hailey K, and I asked him to share his testimony but he wanted me to share mine first, so I did. Then after that he told me that he didn’t really have a testimony. And we talked and walked for a while just talking to him about it. (this was Monday or Tuesday of the camp week) And the rest of the week I prayed for him. Everyday I asked my small group to pray for his salvation and Friday night at the bonfire when Tim came walking up during the fire and told me that he just had gotten saved. That was AMAZING and seeing the change in his life is 100% amazing!

Salvation is though faith in Christ alone. God sent his son to earth as a babe to grow up on earth sinless then die on the cross for all of our sins. If you are not saved I beg of you to ask him into your life. Don’t know how PLEASE ask me! Or call my church (402)-483-4541

Katharine Ann Laucomer