Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.
Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh.
Worship is the believer's response of all that they are - mind, emotions, will, body - to what God is and says and does.
The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance.
Christian music has taken a turn towards worship music, which has turned into a lot of bands and those types of sounds. That's great. God is using that stuff and it's great.
Worship must be - Christ centered, Holy Spirit led, a Response to the Father, about Intimacy and Service and always lead to Transformation!
I'm very careful with what I let my ear gate hear on my own. I don't care if I go out and something is playing that I wouldn't put on myself, that doesn't bother me but when I feed off and get nourishment from music, it's through things that are encouraging and lift me up, things that have integrity and purpose and that's what Christian Worship Music is all about.
Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.
To worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself.
We only learn to behave ourselves in the presence of God.
As someone who worships music, I believe it can never be ugly!
To great sections of the church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the 'program. ' This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us.
Surely that which occupies the total time and energies of heaven must be a fitting pattern for earth.
It is fruitless to search for a single musical style, or even any blend of musical styles, that can assist all Christians with true worship. The followers of Jesus are a far too diverse group of people-which is exactly as it should be. We need, rather, to welcome any worship music that helps churches produce disciples of Jesus Christ.
God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.
