Anyone surprised? Have you attended churches only to find them filled with loud music and raised hands? Some even resemble rock concerts with the music being so loud that you can hardly hear yourself sing. We have experts in worship. We have books on worship. We have seminars and teaching on how to conduct worship. We have the latest state-of-the-art audio and projection systems in our churches. Not one of them asks the question is this pleasing to God? If not! then will God be there to meet you?
Churches have turned to seeker-sensitive churches, well-meaning as they may be, put more emphasis upon what man will get out of a service of worship (unbeliever or believer) than upon what God will get out of it. In the New Covenant, as in the Old, Christians are called to worship God in the manner that He prescribes, and not according to the shifting desires and changing fads of the unbelieving culture. If we worship in God’s Spirit and according to His truth, the object of our worship will inevitably be God Himself. In other words, our worship will be God-centered.
People leave churches because they came looking for God and found him missing. In John 4:23-24, Jesus is talking to the Samaritan woman and tells us some important things about worship in his discourse with her. Jesus told her, “But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” God is seeking worshipers who will worship him truly from their hearts.
Anyone surprised? Have you attended churches only to find them filled with loud music and raised hands? Some even resemble rock concerts with the music being so loud that you can hardly hear yourself sing. We have experts in worship. We have books on worship. We have seminars and teaching on how to conduct worship. We have the latest state-of-the-art audio and projection systems in our churches. Not one of them asks the question is this pleasing to God? If not! then will God be there to meet you?
Churches have turned to seeker-sensitive churches, well-meaning as they may be, put more emphasis upon what man will get out of a service of worship (unbeliever or believer) than upon what God will get out of it. In the New Covenant, as in the Old, Christians are called to worship God in the manner that He prescribes, and not according to the shifting desires and changing fads of the unbelieving culture. If we worship in God’s Spirit and according to His truth, the object of our worship will inevitably be God Himself. In other words, our worship will be God-centered.
People leave churches because they came looking for God and found him missing. In John 4:23-24, Jesus is talking to the Samaritan woman and tells us some important things about worship in his discourse with her. Jesus told her, “But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” God is seeking worshipers who will worship him truly from their hearts.