We do lots of stuff like "God of Wonders" which is a way of expressing our awe of God.
But at the same time, we do an arrangement of "Peaceful, Easy Feeling" where the verses are the verses to "Amazing Grace", and the chorus is "Peaceful, Easy Feeling". We've also done, "How Sweet it is (To be Loved By You)".
I just want to stop - and thank you, Jesus!
That IS worship.
But at the same time, we do an arrangement of "Peaceful, Easy Feeling" where the verses are the verses to "Amazing Grace", and the chorus is "Peaceful, Easy Feeling". We've also done, "How Sweet it is (To be Loved By You)".
Are you joking?
But what's the motive?
1) To worship God and give Him the reverence and awe He is due?
or
2) To have catchy, easy-listening tunes that appeal to man?
Worship is about Him, not us.
Different people are different.
Some of the criticisms of some of the more famous mega-churches I agree with, I feel the same about one in particular criticized here (I won't name it in this remark); I would never go there.
I just found out that a particular member of my family, unchurched her whole life, who has lived a rather wild life, has suddenly been converted, and is in regular attendance at, you guessed it, the church I'm not going to name here. That particular minister does nothing for me, but there is no denying the change in the person I'm referring to.
Of course, if the conversion is genuine, and in this case it is, it isn't the preacher doing the work, it is God. The interesting thing is that God works using the tools at hand. The message (and the person that delivers that message) that reaches me doesn't reach everyone. And what a new believer needs isn't what an old believer needs. Its the whole meat versus milk thing. Sometimes I need the one, and sometimes the other.
If my walk has had to go through stages, over the course of my life, I have to grant that others must go through the same things. The person standing next to you isn't in the same place you are. What reaches him, what he needs to hear and to do, isn't the same as it is for you or me.
So, I'm not worried about my family member, I have observed that once God gets his hook in you, he is quite capable of leading you to where you need to be.