I am the brother of Nikola Telsa, i sleep for just 2hrs everyday. So... I can't sleep in church.
Though the devil exist, but not in my world.

Uzch89:
It is because the erring, mortal, carnal, sinful human nature which humans assume to be their God-given identity is actually is the complete and imaginary opposite of man’s real identity and nature – man’s natural identity as the complete and unadulterated spiritual image and likeness of God, Love, goodness. The mortal, sinful, carnal human nature, which the world educates us to believe is our identity, thus dominates the tendencies of our human behavior.

The world is not aware of this, and its systems of learning, even currently common systems of theology, unwittingly and unknowingly discourage rather than encourage man’s discovery of his real relationship with God – for man to learn of and to practice the acknowledgment of his natural spiritual perfection. Resultingly, ignorant of this potentially life-changing fact, humans tend to act continually in opposition to their own good and spiritual advancement.

Believing himself to be an individual thinker, instead of understanding himself to actually be the direct extension and reflection of the one and only Mind, the Mind of God, the Christ-man which Jesus perfectly exemplified for mankind, humans continue to ignorantly create and promote their own discordant life-environment. I understand this to be what Jesus meant when Jesus said he was come to save sinners. Jesus came to awaken mankind from the subtlety of sin in exactly these forms. Sin does not loudly announce itself. It is deeply hidden within the belief of one’s own identity, and is usually disguised as goodness. Its nature being pure deception, sin can only gain a foothold in consciousness by deceptively convincing one that it is a real, valid, unremovable part of one’s nature.

When we are educated to believe that our nature is a sinful one, a false foundation for the presence of evil in our lives is unwittingly established without our consent. We must tear down that foundation. The Bible tells us ( just one small example) “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8.) The sinners to which Paul refers are the falsely educated identities of ourselves as sinners, which we must strive to put behind us. If God had created a natural sinful nature in us, it would be contrary to God’s wishes to change that, and it would be unnatural to rid ourselves of it. It is therefore illogical to believe that man has a natural God-granted tendency to sin.

So, it’s easy to sleep through church when your thought is centered only on the material world surrounding you. It’s much easier to concentrate on fantasy, like that fascinating movie which so glorifies the same world around which human thought revolves. It’s hard to pray be when we do not know how to pray, or what it means to do so because our view of existence is centered on the material world. If spirituality is far off and distant in our thoughts and we do not know how to approach it, and we have little interest in doing do, it is much easier to simply curse the things around us which to which we unwittingly consent and which are the results of our own lackadaisical attitudes toward existence. It is hard to post a Godly bulletin when thought is never focused on God. We justify our false selfhood, supposed to be separate from God, and we justify the discord cherished in mortal mind, by reposting the mean bulletins. And it is easier to worship a celebrity than God because the celebrity brings to our thought the delights of the world with which our falsely educated senses are accustomed.

This your epistle long ooo

How man go answer?

it actually depends on what church your in...you know fit expect make I no sleep for deeper life service or for any catholic church

Well,
I didn't sleep during service today, Big ups for me.

Sept20:
More Reasons:

Medication
I've known several brethren who could not stay awake because of their medication.

Lack Of Interest
Some just don't care. I wonder why they even come to church at all. If someone's was telling how to make money, thy won't even blink an eye.

Working The Midnight Shift
I truly admire those who put in a full night's work and get home just in time to get ready for morning services. Some would prefer to stay home and sleep.

So you know me? Where & how? You just can't write 'bout ME(ur second point) without my consent

lasisi69:
maybe... I was told that by some scholars

That was why they often call it 'hypothesis'. Scholar like Plato, St. Augustine, Hobbes, etc philosophy has already been proved outdated.

yemmit90:


That was why they often call it 'hypothesis'. Scholar like Plato, St. Augustine, Hobbes, etc philosophy has already been proved outdated.

noted

Mbakas and others prophesies?after prophesy do they have the power to save and take them out those prophesied to from evil kingdoms and what they have swallowed to be powerful where they belong in evil kingdoms because that is the ultimate solution and how to know a true man of God ?you dont combine God and satan light and darkness have now meeting point so if he cant shelter you from the evil kingdoms but only to prophesy then means its fake and not from the God of justice

I can't stay awake for a 3 hour movie either...

Op rapu oku, U sleep when the event is Boring! Shikena. I don't sleep in church, if I simply don't enjoy it. I pick up my things & go home!......some preachers are soo filled and very knowledgable but they are very POOR TEACHERS! If u listen to Pastor Kingsley Okonkwo...U can Never sleep!!! I say NEVER

If the 3 hour movie was as boring as these sermons I would sleep through it too.

when you hear same thing over and over again, the law of diminishing return sets in.......

@OP, sometimes fatigue from weekly stress set in too, above all we need guard our hearts with all diligence......


I'm guarding mine.

It is called the DESTRUCTIVE SLEEP.

OP u re right but what can someone do not 2 pull d rabbit out of a hat when d sermon is boring.

Sometimes you may not be asleep but your mind has wandered / tuned off.

It's part of the weakness of the flesh that must be fought against.

Is this even a question? Maybe you should decode your answer from this; why do our youths prefer listening to songs like 'shoki' shakiti boo' and the rest

Uzch89:
It is because the erring, mortal, carnal, sinful human nature which humans assume to be their God-given identity is actually is the complete and imaginary opposite of man’s real identity and nature – man’s natural identity as the complete and unadulterated spiritual image and likeness of God, Love, goodness. The mortal, sinful, carnal human nature, which the world educates us to believe is our identity, thus dominates the tendencies of our human behavior.

The world is not aware of this, and its systems of learning, even currently common systems of theology, unwittingly and unknowingly discourage rather than encourage man’s discovery of his real relationship with God – for man to learn of and to practice the acknowledgment of his natural spiritual perfection. Resultingly, ignorant of this potentially life-changing fact, humans tend to act continually in opposition to their own good and spiritual advancement.

Believing himself to be an individual thinker, instead of understanding himself to actually be the direct extension and reflection of the one and only Mind, the Mind of God, the Christ-man which Jesus perfectly exemplified for mankind, humans continue to ignorantly create and promote their own discordant life-environment. I understand this to be what Jesus meant when Jesus said he was come to save sinners. Jesus came to awaken mankind from the subtlety of sin in exactly these forms. Sin does not loudly announce itself. It is deeply hidden within the belief of one’s own identity, and is usually disguised as goodness. Its nature being pure deception, sin can only gain a foothold in consciousness by deceptively convincing one that it is a real, valid, unremovable part of one’s nature.

When we are educated to believe that our nature is a sinful one, a false foundation for the presence of evil in our lives is unwittingly established without our consent. We must tear down that foundation. The Bible tells us ( just one small example) “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8.) The sinners to which Paul refers are the falsely educated identities of ourselves as sinners, which we must strive to put behind us. If God had created a natural sinful nature in us, it would be contrary to God’s wishes to change that, and it would be unnatural to rid ourselves of it. It is therefore illogical to believe that man has a natural God-granted tendency to sin.

So, it’s easy to sleep through church when your thought is centered only on the material world surrounding you. It’s much easier to concentrate on fantasy, like that fascinating movie which so glorifies the same world around which human thought revolves. It’s hard to pray be when we do not know how to pray, or what it means to do so because our view of existence is centered on the material world. If spirituality is far off and distant in our thoughts and we do not know how to approach it, and we have little interest in doing do, it is much easier to simply curse the things around us which to which we unwittingly consent and which are the results of our own lackadaisical attitudes toward existence. It is hard to post a Godly bulletin when thought is never focused on God. We justify our false selfhood, supposed to be separate from God, and we justify the discord cherished in mortal mind, by reposting the mean bulletins. And it is easier to worship a celebrity than God because the celebrity brings to our thought the delights of the world with which our falsely educated senses are accustomed.

Honestly I hardly sleep during church service, well I focus my attention to GOD words. I sleep wen am watchn a movie...

Because you're not permitted to speak while the sermon is on. But when watching a movie you can chew anything you feel like and you can also call a friend in the course as the case maybe. So tell me where will the sleep come from when watching movie?

Etumgbe:
Some men of God can be really boring with their preaching.

It is that same spirit that makes u feel like something that will link you to your eternal destiny is boring. The same deceptive spirit the op is talking about.

lasisi69:
The spiritual realm controls the physical realm...

My guy. R you trying to deny our end time ministry? Hmmmmmm.. No way.... Yur our prime minister n u can't denounce it

Attention is a very scarce resource in/of the brain...

Movies use Open Loops & Cliffhangers, ala TENSION, to keep you engaged.

What's going to happen next?

Did he die?

Tyrion Lannister is in deep sh1t, how is he gonna get out?

Service is as boring as counting sheep, because you've heard that same gist since you were 2 years old.

Uzch89:
It is because the erring, mortal, carnal, sinful human nature which humans assume to be their God-given identity is actually is the complete and imaginary opposite of man’s real identity and nature – man’s natural identity as the complete and unadulterated spiritual image and likeness of God, Love, goodness. The mortal, sinful, carnal human nature, which the world educates us to believe is our identity, thus dominates the tendencies of our human behavior.

The world is not aware of this, and its systems of learning, even currently common systems of theology, unwittingly and unknowingly discourage rather than encourage man’s discovery of his real relationship with God – for man to learn of and to practice the acknowledgment of his natural spiritual perfection. Resultingly, ignorant of this potentially life-changing fact, humans tend to act continually in opposition to their own good and spiritual advancement.

Believing himself to be an individual thinker, instead of understanding himself to actually be the direct extension and reflection of the one and only Mind, the Mind of God, the Christ-man which Jesus perfectly exemplified for mankind, humans continue to ignorantly create and promote their own discordant life-environment. I understand this to be what Jesus meant when Jesus said he was come to save sinners. Jesus came to awaken mankind from the subtlety of sin in exactly these forms. Sin does not loudly announce itself. It is deeply hidden within the belief of one’s own identity, and is usually disguised as goodness. Its nature being pure deception, sin can only gain a foothold in consciousness by deceptively convincing one that it is a real, valid, unremovable part of one’s nature.

When we are educated to believe that our nature is a sinful one, a false foundation for the presence of evil in our lives is unwittingly established without our consent. We must tear down that foundation. The Bible tells us ( just one small example) “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8.) The sinners to which Paul refers are the falsely educated identities of ourselves as sinners, which we must strive to put behind us. If God had created a natural sinful nature in us, it would be contrary to God’s wishes to change that, and it would be unnatural to rid ourselves of it. It is therefore illogical to believe that man has a natural God-granted tendency to sin.

So, it’s easy to sleep through church when your thought is centered only on the material world surrounding you. It’s much easier to concentrate on fantasy, like that fascinating movie which so glorifies the same world around which human thought revolves. It’s hard to pray be when we do not know how to pray, or what it means to do so because our view of existence is centered on the material world. If spirituality is far off and distant in our thoughts and we do not know how to approach it, and we have little interest in doing do, it is much easier to simply curse the things around us which to which we unwittingly consent and which are the results of our own lackadaisical attitudes toward existence. It is hard to post a Godly bulletin when thought is never focused on God. We justify our false selfhood, supposed to be separate from God, and we justify the discord cherished in mortal mind, by reposting the mean bulletins. And it is easier to worship a celebrity than God because the celebrity brings to our thought the delights of the world with which our falsely educated senses are accustomed.

Balderdash. Load of crap. Op, do you even understand the thrash you,ve posted here

If you stand on the pulpit and dish out all this nonsense, every one in the church including your fellow pastors would be sleeping by the time you are done.

Etumgbe:
Some men of God can be really boring with their preaching.

I tell you. Dem dull pass lecturer sef..

Smh..

If church services were only 30 minutes I highly guarantee no human being would sleep through them.

Alanjeffy:


My guy. R you trying to deny our end time ministry? Hmmmmmm.. No way.... Yur our prime minister n u can't denounce it

lol... U no well...

superior1:
1. Tiredness
2. Boring sermon
3. Spiritually dead church
4. Spiritual immaturity
5. Non-rejuvenated spirit/carnality

Do you think carnal men slept while Jesus preached ?

These pastors lack it. So many Cock and Bull stories. State pastor go spend 30 minutes praising G.O. who is in Lagos. Today, i kept asking myself, is this man preaching about Christ or General Overseer ?

I got tired. I slept today.

obailala:
The reason why people sleep in church is cos the service is boring and likely just a monotonous repetition.

That's also the same reason why people sleep in boring school lectures or seminars; It's not everthing that must be given a complex and twisted spiritual explanation like the Op has done.

Gbam. It is natural for the body to sleep off if the senses are not kept busy while in a stationary state.

Our men of God should do better.

When i watch Apostle Johnson Suleiman minister, i cant imagine sleeping while watching him on TV talkless in his presence..

I was already napping off reading the thread... D only time i sleep off in church is wen there is no correlation btw d bible verse and the pastor preaching and that drives me nut

because church service is a waste of time nonsense about unproven gods and religions...
Movies is factually more important

hmmmm.....mayb.....boredom