What is Church Anyways? - Part 3
Ξ March 15th, 2006 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Theology |
Take worship. Often people say worship when they mean music worship through song or music. Well, worship is REALLY any act or even thought that gives worth to God. Some would say that if any given act gives honour an glory to the Father, then it’s worship. Truly this is more the truth about worship than to permanently attach it to music. Worship is a lifestyle thing. Our lives either give God glory at any given time, or they do not.
The other presumption that comes out of attaching music to worship is the one that says that as long as you have music at church, you have worship. Not true. Worship is a thing of the heart. So in order for your being to fully worhsip God, you have to mean it and understand it in your heart. I mean, why say I like green beans when I don’t like green beans? How is that being truthful. Afterall, we are called worship in “spirit and truth” (John 4:23).
The point here is that worship can happen with or withour music. In fact, seeing as our lives are spent mostly not at church on a Sunday, then surely MOST of our worship should be occuring during other times than on Sunday and mostly without music at all. Therefore, if Sunday is a person’s primary source of worship, there is something not quite right going on.
So does worship work on a Sunday. Absolutely! The issue isn’t to worship or not on a Sunday. The issue is that our Sunday worship probably shouldn’t be our main time of worship. It can be our main time of corporate worship. In fact it can easily and justifiable be our ONLY form of corporate worship. But worship as a whole is a lifestyle thing. God is worshipped when you feed a hungry man, or help a single mother clothe her children. When we share the love of God, the King is honoured -He is worshipped.
So lets just agree, shall we, that worship has a place in church on Sunday but that church was never intended to be our primary time of worship. This is not so say that we shouldn’t do it on Sundays anymore, but that we should keep looking at Sunday and see if it actually has any specific purpose beyond what we can on our own throughout the week.
Revised (edited for grammar) March 21, 2006