Biblically there is a difference between corporate worship and worship in daily life. The Bible specifically calls for certain elements in our corporate worship gatherings such as, prayer, singing, and preaching. We could be freer from people’s opinions in defining how a church service should be run if we focused on what the Bible calls for.
Choose meaningful text for songs, where you read the lyrics before you hear the tune of the song. I found the exercises on studying texts that we did in class were very helpful it caused me to start evaluation text more than before. I realized that many of the songs I enjoyed really didn’t have much to say. A focus on text in our churches would revolutionize the worship wars we face today.
The goal of church is not to be seeker friendly, but to nourish the body. Of course the church should seek to reach the lost, but its primary goal is not to be cool and modern in order to attract the unchurched and get them ‘saved’. Its primary goal is to develop mature Christians who are able to reach their world for Christ.
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