Twelve Things I Believe about Worship Music 15 8 OCTOBER, 2013 by Karl in Uncategorized I don’t think Jesus ever meant for the church to be a rung in the corporate ladder. Likewise, the worship team at your local church is not a stepping stone for bigger and better worship teams. Sunday morning worship is not a gig to put on your facebook page. If the worship is recorded, and it does not trend on youtube, God was still glorified. And bonus round, that was (or should have been) the purpose anyway. If the job of a worship leader is to get everyone worshiping God and not them, then the famous ones would be the bad ones, and the best ones we’d never know about. (Caveat: if a person has a hero complex, that is not your fault. It doesn’t mean however, that you ever stop trying to point away from yourself and towards Jesus.) It sounds extremely disingenuous to me to say that our singing on a stage on a Sunday morning in America is on the front lines of Christian warfare, when there are missionaries and underground churches literally on the front lines of their lives while we stress that the confidence monitor screen didn’t change in time and we messed up on words we should’ve memorized anyway. Not to mention that the Biblical instances from which we are drawing that metaphor are of the Israelites in actual battles. Like with swords and death and stuff. I believe that if a front line case can be made for the western church institution, it would be the nursery workers. I fully expect a separate banquet hall in heaven with a sign on the closed doors that reads: ‘Former Church Nursery Workers Only…Because While You Were Worried that your Overdrive Pedal Might Be Sounding Thin, We Were Wiping Feces off of Walls.’ I have used worship as an excuse to spend extra money on rush shipping for pedals so they would arrive in time for weekend services. (Fuzz pedals, too. Not just the ever-important delay.) I believe I was wrong. Sometimes the sermon is more important than our last song. And sometimes…it’s debatable. ;) I believe in any given worship music setting, there are at least 25% in the congregation who could do this as well or better than me had they decided to pick up the guitar in high school. It’s a humbling thought. I do not think we should ban electric guitars, drums, moving lights, fog machines, ProPresenter, digital soundboards, or secular songs in worship. I do think that if we had the ability to be bare, and open, and blood red honest before God about our emphasis on these things, they would start to look a lot different.
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