Monday, January 09, 2006
Aside from the "are you a Calvinist or heretic" debate, the question of what kind of worship style does your church do-contemporary or traditional, has become the most common question in church circles.
Let me say first off, I go to a traditional style church, and love it.
When looking at worship, what is the most important thing to consider? Is it the number of instruments? The year, or century, that the music was written?
Jesus said that there would be a time that the followers of God would worship Him in spirit and truth (John 4:23). Both our emotional and intellectual faculties are to be engaged when we worship. But what should be the main driving force when we worship?
Love.
Too many churches today are going to split services with one having contemporary and the other traditional. This a dangerous trend. Basically what happens is two churches get formed that share the same name. Contention and discord come in as one thinks it is more spiritual than the other, etc. It's mainly begun because one of the other does't want to have to deal with the other. Contemps want something more exciting, trads don't like the repetition... So the decision is made to go to two separate worship services. What's missing?
Love.
Let's say that there are two people in chuch one day, sitting next to one another. The younger, who likes contemp style, and the older, who prefers trad, have seemingly oposite views of worship.
If the younger loves truly, as Christ has commanded us to love-sacrificially for one another in Christ-then he needs to sing that traditional song that comes with the fervor and passion that he would sing his favorite contemporary song, and vice versa. This is what brings Jesus the glory-how we love one another is a reflection of the love of Christ for us.
Sacrificing what we like for the joy of another that our brother in Christ is edified and brought nearer to God in worship is what true sacrifice of worship is. The death of self, and our desires, comes down to the heart of worship. When we place more worth on someone else, who in this instance, is a member of the body of Christ, it is there that we see the heart of worth-ship placed.
We have miss placed our hearts in worship far to long. More later...
Soli Deo Gloria,
Aaron "Tree" Landis
Psalm 1.3
Let me say first off, I go to a traditional style church, and love it.
When looking at worship, what is the most important thing to consider? Is it the number of instruments? The year, or century, that the music was written?
Jesus said that there would be a time that the followers of God would worship Him in spirit and truth (John 4:23). Both our emotional and intellectual faculties are to be engaged when we worship. But what should be the main driving force when we worship?
Love.
Too many churches today are going to split services with one having contemporary and the other traditional. This a dangerous trend. Basically what happens is two churches get formed that share the same name. Contention and discord come in as one thinks it is more spiritual than the other, etc. It's mainly begun because one of the other does't want to have to deal with the other. Contemps want something more exciting, trads don't like the repetition... So the decision is made to go to two separate worship services. What's missing?
Love.
Let's say that there are two people in chuch one day, sitting next to one another. The younger, who likes contemp style, and the older, who prefers trad, have seemingly oposite views of worship.
If the younger loves truly, as Christ has commanded us to love-sacrificially for one another in Christ-then he needs to sing that traditional song that comes with the fervor and passion that he would sing his favorite contemporary song, and vice versa. This is what brings Jesus the glory-how we love one another is a reflection of the love of Christ for us.
Sacrificing what we like for the joy of another that our brother in Christ is edified and brought nearer to God in worship is what true sacrifice of worship is. The death of self, and our desires, comes down to the heart of worship. When we place more worth on someone else, who in this instance, is a member of the body of Christ, it is there that we see the heart of worth-ship placed.
We have miss placed our hearts in worship far to long. More later...
Soli Deo Gloria,
Aaron "Tree" Landis
Psalm 1.3
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