beware the church going "spiritual orgasm" seekers

i officially took issue with people like those in my title line. let me explain....

there are people in the church now that are very dangerous to your health as a pastor and a danger to even some people that go to your church. i call them those seeking the spiritual orgasm. the spiritual orgasm i refer to is the moments in worship where you start yelling and screaming and the tears are running down your face and the music just hits you and you raise your hands.

now, let me say first off that there is nothing wrong with this BUT when it becomes part of your weekly routine in worship it can become dangerous. there is a group of people in our church that are very broken in a sense that life has thrown a lot at them. every week they are in the front row of the church dancing, hands raised, yelling, etc. that's great but here's where i start taking some issues. every week this group of people is outside crying, dealing with some conflict, or some issue that faces their "group". every week there is something wrong. all week long they engage in very questionable activity and make horrendous decisions but every sunday there they are crying out to God to make it all better and if they worship harder maybe this week's orgasm will change their life.

it doesn't work this way....

the christian life, the walk, whatever you want to call it, requires hard work. it takes waking up daily and dying to yourself, it takes apologizing to people even when you did nothing wrong if it will improve the health of a relationship, it takes sacrifice, it means doing "something" to change your situation.

"spiritual orgasms" can be good. when they happen every once in a while and you use those moments to springboard to something good and make changes.

if you rely on these moments as part of your weekly routine, then your relationship with God is on quicksand because there will come a day where these moments won't help you anymore. the only thing that can help you is investing in your relationship with Christ on a daily basis and learning to live like He did. until that moment....you're just hooked on a feeling.