The Better Everyday Podcast | Ep.13 Worship
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- In this episode we discuss with our special guests, Melody Guzman and Nathaniel Cleveland: What is worship? What is the purpose of Worship? What is the purpose of a worship team and leader? How and why a worship leader should keep their hearts in check.
It ends up being a great conversation with everyone giving their insight and spitting truth!
It was an honor to be a guest on this podcast! Thank you 🙏🏻
❤Thank you for sharing this and explaining more deeper what worship really is. “Worship is a daily life style , the posture of my heart and not just music “
Do you find that churches now have become more about show and who has the most members? I find that some of the biggest churches have turned the worship music into more of a concert style, with lights instead of just worship. Of course this attracts people but is this a wrong way to do it?
Answer from Nate: God deserves our very best and we should give it to Him, just as the Israelites did in the old testament. The tabernacle of God was precisely designed and adorned. The temple of God was extravagantly designed and was both glamorous and beautiful. Solomon gathered the best of the best to design and fulfill the duties within the temple. However, the purpose and focus was always God. The temple was a place to be in God’s presence and everything they did had meaning that was God centered. If you go to some of the beautiful catholic churches around the world and take a tour you can see that there was also meaning behind their architecture and placement of things to specifically honor God. We now look at our church today and we ask for meaning and purpose. Are we honoring God or honoring our desire of entertainment. This is a huge question of the heart of our churches. Are we like the church of Ephesus; doing and presenting grand services but essentially without Christ in Mind? Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:26-27 How close are we to this? Or are we more invested in million dollar productions. These are questions and thoughts that I too struggle with. I was actually telling my wife this week, that we need to be better stewards the needs of God’s people. So are large productions wrong? A waste? Misguided? Unnecessary? I don’t know. But I do know that all things are permissible but not all things are beneficial. So just because we can put on a huge production, it doesn’t mean we should especially if it unbalances our priorities in loving God’s people.
Response from Grace: the biggest problem I see is consumerism Christianity.
"Excellence" as preference seems to perpetuate this. We want "good" preaching, and "good" worship, and a "good" building. I think that some of the most "excellent" churches aren't making disciples, and yet maybe they are making converts. I'm wrestling with this and would love to continue to the conversation.
Response from David: I think it all has to do with the hearts of the leaders of the church. I believe there should be a lead pastor and a board that holds Him accountable and also helps with decision making. It is true that as a church grows, there is an influx of finances, and usually the first thought is, how do we steward these finances correctly? And usually that means upgrades. This is where the heart is checked because finances usually amplifies what is in a persons heart. If there is a desire for a bigger spotlight, the actions will reflect, and if there is a desire to help members and people in need, that will also reflect in the actions that are taken.
There is a passage in 1 Corinthians 9: 20-23 that says:
“To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.”
And so, if the plan is to attract more people, I would not say that it is a bad thing. If it is just for the sake of having a lot of members then that definitely is a recipe for disaster because you will have to continue feeding the members entertainment to keep them coming. But if the point is to attract people and you have a process of growth set in place in the church where people can be discipled and walked with, then in that scenario, I see the upgrades as an investment into the kingdom because there is a purpose that is more than pride, ego, or personal growth, it is a heart for spreading the gospel and blessing people.
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