Worship, a perspective
Not that I really agree with how this approaches the subject, I do believe that the nature of worship does need to be addressed. The modern church has created a reality in which how we worship is more important than what Who are supposed to worship. While I feel that this has been encouraged by the “christian” music industry; How many worship CD’s of the same songs can we possibly hear? There will always be false worship and real worship I think it does help to center us if we reflect on the following verse with the mind focused on worship of the great I AM and not the great me-centered falsehood.
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.
Mark 12:30 ESV
We love God, and therefore we worship Him, simple as that. How that worship takes place is as best fits the community which is doing the worship. Some churches are reactionary, shunning guitars and drums, while others cut off half a millenia of wonderful hymnody. If people do this to best worship God in their community that is one thing, but if it stops being worship and becomes a method of recruitment then what is it? Is it still worship? Is it just useless noise?