John 4:24, “God is a Spirit: and they that worship
him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”
The post-modern church has a fundamental misconception of what worship
really is. It is not about a guy on the platform playing
a pipe organ so big you have to wear a crash helmet to get down off the bench. It is
certainly not about some bloke down on the floor wearing sandals and a Jesus
t-shirt playing his guitar or banjo, or six Barbie Dolls with microphones
singing in front of the congregation.
Nick
Page, in his book And Now Let’s Move into
a Time of Nonsense, stated “worship has become an event, an occasion,
isolated and distinct from the rest of our life and from our real walk with
God…Real worship stems from a conscious decision to live our lives in God’s
way” (pp 26-27). Worship is not about singing, or preaching, or testifying, or
taking an offering and it certainly is not about the long laundry list of announcements
that are often made in the middle of the worship service. Worship is about acknowledging who God is and
what He has done and what He does. We worship because:
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