Title: Forward ... Together in Worship (3)
Series: Forward... Together
Author: Brad Whitt
Text: John 4
INTRODUCTION
Take your Bibles and turn with me to John chapter 4. We are in a series of studies on the spiritual disciplines entitled "Forward...Together." We are focusing on those "holy habits" that help us grow, develop, and strengthen our spiritual muscles.
Things like:
- Bible Study
- Prayer
- Witnessing
- Giving
- Serving
QUOTE: "Worship is the bottom-line of all of life. It is life's ultimate priority, highest good, supreme duty, and maximum privilege." - Adrian Rogers. ?
Yet, we are living in a day and age where there is often a great deal of:
- Conflict
- Coldness
- Complacency
- Carelessness
Even a Critical spirit
By those who come to worship in God's House on God's Day.
(I came through the generation that experienced the "worship wars" of the 80s and 90s.)
Example: Elmer Towns even wrote the book, "Putting an End to Worship Wars."
People have realized that there is a problem, but so often, the solutions that people give to remedy the problem of misunderstood or misplaced worship focus only on the externals and not on the internal or eternal. It's more of a matter of the hymnal and hands than it is of the heart and Heaven.
That's why most of the time, the solutions given for the problem of worship center around the "style" of worship:
"Brad, we need to sing more modern songs like our friends do in their churches."
"Preacher, we need to pull out the hymn books and start singing those 'good ole hymns like we used to back in the 70s.'"
"Dr. Whitt, we need to put the organ back on the platform and have a reverent, respectable, formal liturgical worship service like the church I grew up in."
"We need to raise our hands, clap, jump up and down, and be happy in God's house."
Or,
"We need to quit all this 'happy clappy' stuff and be more serious and ...
Series: Forward... Together
Author: Brad Whitt
Text: John 4
INTRODUCTION
Take your Bibles and turn with me to John chapter 4. We are in a series of studies on the spiritual disciplines entitled "Forward...Together." We are focusing on those "holy habits" that help us grow, develop, and strengthen our spiritual muscles.
Things like:
- Bible Study
- Prayer
- Witnessing
- Giving
- Serving
QUOTE: "Worship is the bottom-line of all of life. It is life's ultimate priority, highest good, supreme duty, and maximum privilege." - Adrian Rogers. ?
Yet, we are living in a day and age where there is often a great deal of:
- Conflict
- Coldness
- Complacency
- Carelessness
Even a Critical spirit
By those who come to worship in God's House on God's Day.
(I came through the generation that experienced the "worship wars" of the 80s and 90s.)
Example: Elmer Towns even wrote the book, "Putting an End to Worship Wars."
People have realized that there is a problem, but so often, the solutions that people give to remedy the problem of misunderstood or misplaced worship focus only on the externals and not on the internal or eternal. It's more of a matter of the hymnal and hands than it is of the heart and Heaven.
That's why most of the time, the solutions given for the problem of worship center around the "style" of worship:
"Brad, we need to sing more modern songs like our friends do in their churches."
"Preacher, we need to pull out the hymn books and start singing those 'good ole hymns like we used to back in the 70s.'"
"Dr. Whitt, we need to put the organ back on the platform and have a reverent, respectable, formal liturgical worship service like the church I grew up in."
"We need to raise our hands, clap, jump up and down, and be happy in God's house."
Or,
"We need to quit all this 'happy clappy' stuff and be more serious and ...
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