Comments on: The Weirdness of Lifting My Hands http://www.wccc.net/blogs/gospelprism/2006/05/24/the-wierdness-of-lifting-my-hands/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:11:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: admin http://www.wccc.net/blogs/gospelprism/2006/05/24/the-wierdness-of-lifting-my-hands/#comment-161 admin Sat, 27 May 2006 17:55:52 +0000 http://www.samshua.com/blog/2006/05/24/the-wierdness-of-lifting-my-hands/#comment-161 Oh Tim, you are so right. That's why I am thankful for 1 Cor 10:31. Worship is clearly not about 90 minutes on one day, but that one day (the Lord's Day) is representative (like the tithe to goods) of all of our days being set aside to worship Him. Oh Tim, you are so right. That’s why I am thankful for 1 Cor 10:31. Worship is clearly not about 90 minutes on one day, but that one day (the Lord’s Day) is representative (like the tithe to goods) of all of our days being set aside to worship Him.

]]> By: TimK http://www.wccc.net/blogs/gospelprism/2006/05/24/the-wierdness-of-lifting-my-hands/#comment-160 TimK Sat, 27 May 2006 15:01:02 +0000 http://www.samshua.com/blog/2006/05/24/the-wierdness-of-lifting-my-hands/#comment-160 BroSam, BobK's series on his blog is excellent - highly thought-provoking. Thanks for pointing it out. Another error is worship as an activity not focused on God. It is easy to get caught up in good musicianship, decibel-level, beat/tempo, and just feelin' good - without worshiping God Almighty in His Triunity. This points to the critical role of the worship leader. The worship leader's every word and action should be directed to WORSHIP of GOD (emphasis intentional). Syrupy self-confession and feel-good self-revelation by the leader brings a focus on man and detracts from looking a the glories of Father/Son/Holy Spirit. Typical churches gather corporately less than 90 minutes/weekly for public worship and proclamation of the Word. That's a paltry percentage of a week's time. "Worship" that centers on anything less than God is both symptomatic and causative of the rampant spiritual anemia which infects the contempory church. BroSam, BobK’s series on his blog is excellent - highly thought-provoking. Thanks for pointing it out.

Another error is worship as an activity not focused on God. It is easy to get caught up in good musicianship, decibel-level, beat/tempo, and just feelin’ good - without worshiping God Almighty in His Triunity. This points to the critical role of the worship leader. The worship leader’s every word and action should be directed to WORSHIP of GOD (emphasis intentional). Syrupy self-confession and feel-good self-revelation by the leader brings a focus on man and detracts from looking a the glories of Father/Son/Holy Spirit.

Typical churches gather corporately less than 90 minutes/weekly for public worship and proclamation of the Word. That’s a paltry percentage of a week’s time. “Worship” that centers on anything less than God is both symptomatic and causative of the rampant spiritual anemia which infects the contempory church.

]]> By: admin http://www.wccc.net/blogs/gospelprism/2006/05/24/the-wierdness-of-lifting-my-hands/#comment-159 admin Fri, 26 May 2006 23:40:03 +0000 http://www.samshua.com/blog/2006/05/24/the-wierdness-of-lifting-my-hands/#comment-159 Tim, you are so right on about this. It is strange how people are so emotional for so many things, but when it comes to worship, it's deemed that to be emotional at all as to be unholy. Truly something is amiss. I just ordered "The Mortification of Sin." Tim, you are so right on about this. It is strange how people are so emotional for so many things, but when it comes to worship, it’s deemed that to be emotional at all as to be unholy. Truly something is amiss.

I just ordered “The Mortification of Sin.”

]]> By: TimK http://www.wccc.net/blogs/gospelprism/2006/05/24/the-wierdness-of-lifting-my-hands/#comment-157 TimK Thu, 25 May 2006 22:21:15 +0000 http://www.samshua.com/blog/2006/05/24/the-wierdness-of-lifting-my-hands/#comment-157 Sam, I have been thinking about this alot recently. The strange thing to me is that we can pay lotsa $$ to go watch morally repugnant entertainers who are grossly overpaid and overvalued kick, pass, hit, and otherwise move spheroids of various types over courts and fields of various types. And we do this with thousands of other people and we jump and exalt and raise our hands and slap-5 to these gods. Yet on Sunday morning the one who weeps before The God or raises his/her hands in His worship is viewed as excessively emotionally or unbalanced. The problem is not just our motive; the problem is who/Who or what we worship. Sam, I have been thinking about this alot recently. The strange thing to me is that we can pay lotsa $$ to go watch morally repugnant entertainers who are grossly overpaid and overvalued kick, pass, hit, and otherwise move spheroids of various types over courts and fields of various types. And we do this with thousands of other people and we jump and exalt and raise our hands and slap-5 to these gods. Yet on Sunday morning the one who weeps before The God or raises his/her hands in His worship is viewed as excessively emotionally or unbalanced. The problem is not just our motive; the problem is who/Who or what we worship.

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