As believers, we are blessed to worship the true and living God. When we worship God we direct devotion, reverence, and honor to God because he alone is worthy of our worship. However, in contemporary society worship seems to have shifted from a substantive to stylistic focus. My question is, should we as believers seek a substantive worship experience or stylistic worship experience and why?
We as believers should definitely seek a substantive worship experience . God is never changing .Styles and the way people choose to do things are constantly changing . Once you leave the sanctuary and you're approached with worldly situations you can't use style to engage any of that .Believers shoud definitely seek substance .
ReplyDeleteOur worship must be substantive worship. Our worship must extend beyond Sunday and Wednesday church service. According to Romans 12:1, we must live a life style of worship. Our worship must be permanent. I believe that substantive worship that gets it's genesis in private prayer. In private prayer nothing competes for our worship. It is just us one on one with God. It is like being on face time with God. Up close and personal. It is in private prayer that God cleanse our hearts from pride, jealousy, envy etc. It a means by which we are constantly renewed. We begin to truly understand God love for us and the fact that we don't deserve it. It ultimately becomes seductive thus we find ourselves in corporate worship with other believers. Although I think the wimberly and blended styles of worship are ok I subscribe more to the Isaiah model. I believe it is substantive. It is personal. I look upward and understand the Holiness of God, I look inward and understand the nothingness of myself that has been covered by the blood of the lamb through love then I am forced to look outward for opportunities to make it empirical by testifying to others. It is what David depicts in the 23 psalm and 30 psalm. It is personal. It is pervasive. It is pivotal , and it is permanent.
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