Worship in the Church

When it comes to finding the right church, one of the big things that determines whether or not you like a church is the worship. Some people prefer only singing hymns. On the other hand some people only like it if there are drums and electric guitars. However, I think that with this mindset we are missing the point to a certain extent. Is worship really in the music? No! Worship comes from our heart of reverence towards our Savior Jesus Christ! With this in mind, I believe that worships should not be circumstantial on the type of music being played. Understandably, there are some types of music that are not enjoyable to people. For instance, the older generation who grew up with only hymns might not enjoy the harder contemporary songs that the younger generation sings today. This goes both ways. But just because we do not enjoy the music, does not mean that we cannot worship the God who created us. We should always be striving to worship and glorify God in all that we say and do. Letting a style of music get in the way of this comes from a heart of selfishness. When we become too concerned with ourselves and how we feel, we are robbing God because we are unable to worship Him. Worship is an act of selflessness that is done in humility, but it easy to become proud and arrogant in our own desires and preferences that we miss the point of what we are actually doing. God's glory is not circumstantial on what type of music is being played and we should keep that in mind when we are too stubborn to worship God with a particular type of music. We are on this earth to worship and glorify God. That doesn't mean, only when we feel like it or like the music. It means always, no matter what the circumstances! An understanding of this should change some of our attitudes towards how we worship.

My Testimony

From a young age I had always wondered about what was going to happen to me after I died. I had grown up in church and had a knowledge of who God was but I was still scared of what would happen to me when I died. One night, I was laying in bed and got really scared because I was thinking about this. Finally I came downstairs to my  parents and my mom explained to me what would happen if I died. She told me that I would be separated from God forever. Not only that, but I would go to a place where I would be tortured and tormented forever. I obviously did not want to experience that torture. The alternative of that was to believe that Jesus is God's son and that he died on the cross so that I did not have to go through that torture. It was at this time that I decided to believe that Jesus died for me and that I wanted to live for him and spend eternity with him in a place called Heaven. Here I would forever be in the presence of God and be able to worship Him forever.

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