5 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD SING (2 OF 5)
by Scott Maze
Scripture: Ephesians 5:18-21
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5 Reasons Why You Should Sing (2 of 5)
Series: His Worship Matters
Scott Maze
Ephesians 5:18-21
We continue our series on worship. Worship is a big deal to you personally. I want to release the power of worship in your life. I want you to experience the transformative power of worship personally. For so many of you, too much of your time in worship is a ''yawnfest.'' How can Someone so great be worshipped with so little? We need a worship transformation.
Genuine, transformational worship involved your emotions, your thoughts, and your actions. Worship is about who and what we love more than anything else.
Over the next couple of Sundays, I want to look at two common elements of our worship together: singing and preaching. I want to help us worship better in this two important, historic areas. And so I want to be really practical for the next two Sundays. We sing so much and we hear so many sermons: why do we do this and how we can profit from these ancient holy habits that were handed down to us.
Sometimes when people find out you're follower of Christ, you'll get the following question: ''You Christians believe in God but you're as messed up as everyone else. What gives?'' An awful lot of people who believe in God and Christ are as messed up and as selfish as everybody else. The reason is their beliefs haven't really produced changed character. Why? Because your beliefs don't automatically become ''changed character.'' You have to turn beliefs into character with something in the middle.
Let me borrow from the language of computer world for a moment. Just as there is software and hardware in the computer world, there is also middleware. The middleware of Christianity is something between our beliefs and our character. This middleware is our spiritual disciplines or our holy habits.
Singing in worship and listening to a sermon are two of these holy habits. Both of these will deepen our beliefs into our character. The ...
Series: His Worship Matters
Scott Maze
Ephesians 5:18-21
We continue our series on worship. Worship is a big deal to you personally. I want to release the power of worship in your life. I want you to experience the transformative power of worship personally. For so many of you, too much of your time in worship is a ''yawnfest.'' How can Someone so great be worshipped with so little? We need a worship transformation.
Genuine, transformational worship involved your emotions, your thoughts, and your actions. Worship is about who and what we love more than anything else.
Over the next couple of Sundays, I want to look at two common elements of our worship together: singing and preaching. I want to help us worship better in this two important, historic areas. And so I want to be really practical for the next two Sundays. We sing so much and we hear so many sermons: why do we do this and how we can profit from these ancient holy habits that were handed down to us.
Sometimes when people find out you're follower of Christ, you'll get the following question: ''You Christians believe in God but you're as messed up as everyone else. What gives?'' An awful lot of people who believe in God and Christ are as messed up and as selfish as everybody else. The reason is their beliefs haven't really produced changed character. Why? Because your beliefs don't automatically become ''changed character.'' You have to turn beliefs into character with something in the middle.
Let me borrow from the language of computer world for a moment. Just as there is software and hardware in the computer world, there is also middleware. The middleware of Christianity is something between our beliefs and our character. This middleware is our spiritual disciplines or our holy habits.
Singing in worship and listening to a sermon are two of these holy habits. Both of these will deepen our beliefs into our character. The ...
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