Im Tired Of Clapping My Hands In Church.

hands i said.

Do you have branches???

Plenty Hands they have o!

eh

@dani1luv
How far now? 

@Gamine
If someone/some people can dance for 3 days without getting tired, I don't see why someone will be tired of clapping for just 2 minutes.

@Gamine
You really suck when playing the violin. 
Try clapping your hands. 

@Gamine
      
Lets go and play PES 2009. 

@ DIsease
amma kwl yhu knw

@ Gamine
yes PES

I feel you; I was in your position about 25 yrs ago, while I was still in secondary school. The whole of the Christian doctrine started breaking down, the more I tried to apply sense and reason to it.
I am sure you are trying to do the same and apply reason to some aspect of your faith, I suspect you are still an inquisitive teenager because the older you are the more difficult it is to let go of age long beliefs and habits.
Do not let anyone make you feel guilty about clapping in church, in fact I can say you are gradually coming unto enlightenment. Other Christians would threaten you with fire and brimstone, others would label you’re a backslider, do mot mind them.
I can tell you than clapping for God or Jesus is a relatively new phenomenon in Christianity. And  I think it is as a result of the African influence on Christianity, others are night vigils, deliverance, shouting and dancing oneself into a trance, etc., theses are vestiges of our animist religious practices, which we have practiced for generations.
Clapping for God or any other prophet was not found anywhere in the old testament,  even when God interacted with the Israelites on mount Sinai, they did not clap for God, no body clapped for Abraham, Moses , Isaiah, etc. Even when Jesus was alive, nobody clapped  for him after each miracle, not one were his disciples required to clap for him.
Clapping as per applause was reserved for musicians, magicians and performers who entertained the crowd and the crowd applause to show appreciation in medieval Europe, clapping was never associated with religious worship.
Christianity established as a formal religion in about the second century A.D. existed as a monolithic entity as the Catholic Church until sometimes in the 13th or 14th century A.D. when the protestants protesting some practices in church broke away, clapping was not an issue in contention. The protestants (the Anglicans, the Methodists, the Lutherans, etc. ) did not introduce clapping as mandatory for salvation.
It was when the Blacks in the U.S adopted Christianity to their native practices that clapping, shouting, soul music, enter into Christianity. And when this version (Pentecostalism) entered into Africa, we added core African practices of entering into trance, heavy drumming, mid night deliverances, divination, and HEAVY CLAPPING into the mix.  So in effect we are still practicing our ancient religious rites under the guise of Christianity.

Wirinet

Thank You

God Bless YOU!!!!!!


I'm not a teenager, but I'm purging myself of all doctrines learnt from time past

Ask Someone.

u well so? 

everything done in the church, a living church that is,  is for the glory of God. We therefore clap for Jesus even when a brother is invited to give testimony or the choir has just rendered a special number, because he is the source of every good and perect gift, Hmm just like someone said you will appreciate your hands more if they are not there and they are still attached to your body only because the good Lord cares.

Change church only because of clapping?

No wonder there are so many sects in christianity today, I'm sure many of them broke out because of the most mundane issues.

[coming to think of it  Gamine
there is nothing in the clapping of hands
its just a way of encouraging a fellow.

lets give it up 4 Jesus
should call 4 alarm.

maybe u were concerned about the way
u were being looked at when u aint clapping.

Everyone is doing something collectively,
but one is proving ODD.
Put yourself in their shoes.

Well,nothing terrible in clapping,
continue giving it up!!!


quote author=Gamine link=topic=185205.msg3043796#msg3043796 date=1225915300]
lol

now that u are alive why not make good use of your whole being by praising God with everything you have rather than telling God indirectly that you can decide to do whatever u like in his presence.it could be disastrous.
     there is nothing wrong with clapping your hands for God.

I'm Tired Of Clapping My Hands In Church.

then don't. am sure in a church of even 30 people, if you don't clap your hand no one would notice