While I am talking about nothing in particular, a new phenomenon has developed as I fall asleep at night. I dream about puppies. Golden retriever puppies. Black lab puppies. Cocker spaniel puppies. Beagle puppies. What is that about?
Worship quote (paraphrase) for the week:
"God is not interested in our innovations to worship... Biblical worship does not ask, What represents our culture best? Biblical worship asks, What best represents who our God is?"
by Dr. James Allman
Dallas Theological Seminary, BE 103, Fall 2008
1 comment:
I love your quote. The theological core of worship should be reverence and respect first, then relevance.
First: when it comes to our personal worship offerings: anything goes. But when it comes to our corporate worship offering, you can't always just do whatever you want. If all the instrumentalists in the church started playing whatever, would it be painful? Would God's people be able to worship? Maybe the most mature, but we have an immature body.
As for innovation: YES! Dr. James Allman is right. However, we have "innovation" because people are inherently creative. We create (innovate) and give that creation back to God. Be it music, poetry, whatever.
Innovation, though, is only really an "issue" because people tend to look at their innovations and think "this is the best way to worship!" So they impose their worship offering onto others. The repressed ones then don't get to give the worship offering that God created to give, their worship offerings are "less than" and "not as good as". Therefore, innovation becomes an issue rather than a normal part of our worship offering as a people.
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