I spent a total of about five days this month in workshops and conferences with Worship Leaders/Ministers of Music from all over the US and several other countries. Some of the happenings in churches surrounding worship and worship leadership really concern me.
It seems that in today's church there is more concern about personal music and/or worship style preferences than any direction from a Biblical or theological basis. And even more concerning is the un-Christian way that some people express their preferences. There is nothing wrong with discussion among believers about music and worship styles, but to do so in divisive and hateful ways is destructive to the Kingdom and to one another. What happened to the scriptural admonition to "yield one to another in the body"?
The same God who created man, volcanos, glaciers, huge mountains, hummingbirds and gnats is the same God who gifts us to be creative and to create for His glory. And, just look and see the wide expanse of differences in God's creation.
I heard a long time Church Musician say this week that we will always get in trouble when we can't separate our cultural preferences from theological and Biblical absolutes.
We must remember that whatever we do, it is always about the message - loving Jesus with all that we are and that whatever we are able to do is a gift from Him for the sole purpose of His Glory. I must remember that worship is about Him, not me.
To God alone be Glory! mjm
