Bishop Alan :: Worship for the Me Generation
Do you wish worship at your church was more relevant and personal? As we all become more obsessed with ourselves, churches become self-selecting voluntary organisations for people who like particular club experience, or share particular views. Salvation becomes self-fulfillment, & Ego judges everything. Here’s the ultimate hi-relevance lo-tradition worship resource for the now generation… hi-impact worship you can always be sure to enjoy.
Watch the video. Cynical? Certainly.
But more than a hint of truth.
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fatprophet 05.24.08 at 1:19 pm
Another gem Richard - it was interesting to say the least
Kim 05.24.08 at 5:02 pm
Worship driven by the attempt to be “relevant” and “personal”? Oh dear. Thus do the monkeys of the evening news or the latest latest therapy tell the Organ Grinder what tune to play. Woe unto worship leaders who are chaplains of the fashionable, who don’t believe that it is the gospel that defines reality, not the other way round!
Richard 05.24.08 at 7:34 pm
Did you look at the video, Kim?
Kim 05.24.08 at 11:56 pm
What, does it suggest I’m wrong?
Richard 05.25.08 at 8:29 am
It’s an ad for a new CD of worship songs. Trust me, you’ll enjoy it.
Kim 05.25.08 at 12:39 pm
I do and I did, immensely - yesterday!
Richard 05.25.08 at 1:05 pm
Glad you enjoyed it.
ee 05.27.08 at 10:12 am
I agree that worship has to be defined by the gospel, not contemporary culture. But isn’t the idea of using modern music in worship based on Paul’s thinking: ‘to the Jews I become like the Jews, in order that I might win some’?
Modern music, it seems to me, can help people (particularly non-churchy people) enter into worship. The problem only comes when the words of the songs lead them instead into self-absorbtion.