"It's all about ME".....the direction of....
07-03-2006, 10:30 PM
Hey Moe!
You might want to check out my post elsewhere on the forum:
<URL url="http://zionfirefriends.com/index.php?showtopic=467">http://zionfirefriends.com/index.php?showtopic=467
This is a distillation of our experience at a Tom Kraueter Worship Seminar. There is a lot of "what does Scripture say about worship" involved in his seminar. I loved it. It exploded a lot of people's incorrect notions about worship. The single most important issue is that worship is to be directed to God, period. If it's not aimed at Him, it can at best be worship-like.
Once you come to a definition of worship that realizes that it is indeed all about Him, but that the worship is a "You and me" thing, and not the "all of us ABOUT Him" thing, it changes the way you plan things. It changes the songs you'll use, and it will so dramatically increase the power in those services that people will wonder what's happened!
If the object is to worship HIM, ought not the songs be talking TO Him and not ABOUT Him?? As we really do enter into heart to heart communion with Him, we are changed. That is one of the side benefits, one of the intentional things that Father built into this thing. We become like what we worship. 2 Cor 3:18 is one of those verses that is a bit foggy for lots of folks. Breaking it down, we look into a mirror with unveiled faces, looking as it were into the glory of God and we are transformed into that very image! It is in direct face to face encounters. Most face to face encounters end up as "you and me" situations, not talking to someone else about how amazing the One you're looking at is!
Food for thought, I hope.
You might want to check out my post elsewhere on the forum:
<URL url="http://zionfirefriends.com/index.php?showtopic=467">http://zionfirefriends.com/index.php?showtopic=467
This is a distillation of our experience at a Tom Kraueter Worship Seminar. There is a lot of "what does Scripture say about worship" involved in his seminar. I loved it. It exploded a lot of people's incorrect notions about worship. The single most important issue is that worship is to be directed to God, period. If it's not aimed at Him, it can at best be worship-like.
Once you come to a definition of worship that realizes that it is indeed all about Him, but that the worship is a "You and me" thing, and not the "all of us ABOUT Him" thing, it changes the way you plan things. It changes the songs you'll use, and it will so dramatically increase the power in those services that people will wonder what's happened!
If the object is to worship HIM, ought not the songs be talking TO Him and not ABOUT Him?? As we really do enter into heart to heart communion with Him, we are changed. That is one of the side benefits, one of the intentional things that Father built into this thing. We become like what we worship. 2 Cor 3:18 is one of those verses that is a bit foggy for lots of folks. Breaking it down, we look into a mirror with unveiled faces, looking as it were into the glory of God and we are transformed into that very image! It is in direct face to face encounters. Most face to face encounters end up as "you and me" situations, not talking to someone else about how amazing the One you're looking at is!
Food for thought, I hope.
Blessings!
Dean
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