The Worshiptainment Error

 "For you have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest." Hebrews 12:18

" But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels. to the general assembly and church of the firstborn...: Hebrews 12:22

Part of the problem with worshiptainment is the lack of respect and reverence that it instills in those who participate. We are more concerned with impressing and attracting the unsaved who do not know the songs and who will not sing along. One error that the Jesus People revival gave us is the lack of reverence and holy awe towards God it produces. This is evidenced in how we dress and how we worship.

Why would we consider singing songs that are only good for one generation? There are hymns that go back centuries, but we do not sing them. There are revival songs that go back generations and we do not sing them. But we sing songs that we think will make the gospel attractive and it doesn't work. Seeker sensitive is just a way to dress up self interest.

Did it ever occur to you that when we worship we are joining myriads of angels who worship God in the Spirit? That a great cloud of witnesses join us every Sunday morning?

Idolatry is creating gods who suit our tastes and our ideas. Those who worship God must worship in Spirit and in truth.

We do not have to sing ancient hymns to worship God. But we must give thought to the music that we employ to worship God that it is God focused and not flesh pleasing. The message is more import than the rhymes.