Your editorials regarding worship are right on target. Your
term “seeker friendly” explains what far too many churches are doing
to reach a pleasure-seeking, self-gratification, non-committal generation.
Your editorials regarding worship are right on target. Your
term “seeker friendly” explains what far too many churches are doing
to reach a pleasure-seeking, self-gratification, non-committal generation.
Mankind has never ceased trying to bring God down to our level of communication,
rather than rising to where God wants us to be. Rather than elevating worship
to please God we bring it down to the nightclub level to please the Saturday
night crowd.
The words of the songs and choruses have deteriorated to near
sentimental mish-mash and weak theology or non-theology.
We sing about the sacrifice of praise, but God prefers obedience
to sacrifice, and we dont care to be obedient.
We have left the godly “Amen!” in favor of handclapping,
a form of approval of the messenger rather than the message and a very disturbing,
non-worship form to me.
We sing about God being awesome but fail to stand in SILENT awe of His majesty.
You recently discussed the word “contemporary,” as
has Warren Wiersbe in his book, “God Isnt in a hurry.” We have
always had contemporary songs and contemporary worship, but thank God most of
it did not survive the tests of worth and time. May the same be true in the
future of the contemporary garbage of today.
Billy Miller
Alexandria