Martin Smith (of Delirious) recently posted this article over on Soul Purpose. It’s worth taking a look at, so I brought it over here.
by Martin Smith
Worship, worship, worship…and more worship! Is it just me, or is worship getting boring? In typical marketing fashion, the Christian world takes a genuine move of God, wraps plastic packaging around it, promotes the guts out of it and targets the susceptible consumer as though worship is just another ‘product’ to be sold alongside Barbie dolls and plasma TVs.
When anything becomes so consumer driven, what usually happens in time? We become bored of it, just like we tire of the latest computer game or new sneakers because it’s just another ‘product’.
“Worship, It’s so over,†I’ve heard one record company exec say. And I hear kids saying “It all sounds the same nowâ€. I’m sad, very sad when I hear this and I reckon God might be sad too.
For the record (if you’ll pardon the pun), worship is far from boring. In fact, it’s the reason we were born and the very act that keeps us truly alive in a world that only worships itself. Worship is the most exciting thing we can do while we’re here on earth and is the only thing we will take from this life into heaven. We should celebrate God with all that we are. A human being who doesn’t offer him or herself in praise and adoration to Jesus is not really alive, but merely skin and bones passing through this world on the way to hell. So, to worship God – the one who created us, the one who named us, who called us from darkness, and who adores us – is actually what we’re on the earth to do first and foremost. We’re here to fall in love with and worship Jesus daily: who he is, what he loves, and what his heart breaks for.
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