i sometimes find my relentless consumerism finding its way into my church experience on sunday...
for example, i often think as follows:
'the music was... to loud/ to quiet/ to old/ to new...'
'the sermon was... to long/ to short/ not enough script..'
how often I forget that it is called a worship service
hmmmm... that brings up an interesting question: who is getting served? us or God?
many of the critiques I have point to the fact that I'm looking to be the primary one served..
we often forget that we are there, in church, not to be entertained but to be led into the presence of the HOLY God...
to sing to Him, to pray to Him, to listen to His Word in honor of Him... it is about HIM.
I'm struck by the following quote:
“Why do people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the absolute? Worship is dangerous.
Does anyone have the foggiest idea of what sort of power we so blithely invoke?
Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it?” Annie Dillard
May God give us greater grace to have our eyes opened as we prepare our hearts for worship this coming weekend and enter into His presence...
May He change us as His people to love Him more than we love anything and to Know Him more than we Know anything.
Rom. 11.33-36
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4 comments:
Amen,
Matt that was convicting and inspiring... thanks for the blog...
word up...good thoughts...guess after services we shouldn't think what did I like/not like or did it serve my needs and tastes...but did I worship?
Scott, I think you are right on the money... good thoughts
mb
How do we ever escape our culture influences? How can we preach and expose the end product of consumerism. this is the kind of stuff that we take for granted as normal, but it is not. Good thoughts!
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