Styles of Worship
I ran across a website for a church near Seattle, and it had this to say in it's philosophy statement:
Healthy Worship:
We believe that our worship should come out of a variety of forms and styles. The issue in worship is not what pleases us personally, but what pleases God. When we are uncomfortable with an unfamiliar worship style, someone else is comfortable, and we please God by setting our own preferences aside.
I must say, there is something there that is really refreshing to me. The focus on God, the focus on loving one's neighbor, it's good stuff. Most people I talk to either find people who are into hymns and traditional styles of liturgical worship horribly stale and misguided, or they are on the other side and think that people who have informal worship with praise songs are into vapid emotionalism. And this is not to say that neither of those sentiments is ever true. But it's nice to find a church that is willing to take a break from all that negativity (or at least try to).
Healthy Worship:
We believe that our worship should come out of a variety of forms and styles. The issue in worship is not what pleases us personally, but what pleases God. When we are uncomfortable with an unfamiliar worship style, someone else is comfortable, and we please God by setting our own preferences aside.
I must say, there is something there that is really refreshing to me. The focus on God, the focus on loving one's neighbor, it's good stuff. Most people I talk to either find people who are into hymns and traditional styles of liturgical worship horribly stale and misguided, or they are on the other side and think that people who have informal worship with praise songs are into vapid emotionalism. And this is not to say that neither of those sentiments is ever true. But it's nice to find a church that is willing to take a break from all that negativity (or at least try to).
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