Does anyone else see the difference between the two? For instance:
WORSHIP MUSIC:
CHRISTIAN MUSIC:
I personally love both for different reasons. Worship music is connecting with God in reverence and honor to Him.
Christian music can lift our spirits as well yet, it seems to have many more I's, Me's and My's in the lyrics. I love both.
Anybody relate to this?
I have noticed that much of the secular advertising these days focus around me, myself and I, making us as individuals the centre of life and society.
I have noticed that as we have tried to make Christianity popular, we have tended to make the songs coming from it centre around me, myself and I
I watch Songs of Praise sometimes and it usually sings the old hymns of yesteryear and most of them are God and Christ focussed. Many of them were written during times of revival and restoration where the focus was on God and Jesus alone and they were written by men of God who were raised up to lead the church into sacrifice, humility and holiness. I think the two go together.
More importantly, worship is not singing songs of any kind. In biblical terms, worship is complete surrender as in a King surrendering to another king who has defeated him in war. We have lost this concept entirely in the modern-day mega-church environment and it has trickled down into the smaller churches as they have embraced the megachurch form of worship. My wife's church sings all of the right songs but the meeting is as dead as a dodo.
In the church I attended in the UK before I moved to Australia, you could almost guarantee a visitation from the Holy Spirit at every meeting. Our attitude was that unless you turned up Lord it is a waste of time meeting. So we were literally surrendered, totally dependant on him for a visitation.
In Australia, most of the time we do not need a visitation because we have the programme down pat. If the Holy Spirit does not turn up and why should he as we don't really need him, then the programme will serve us well.
I can remember one meeting in Australia when we did have a visitation of the Spirit. About 10 minutes into the meeting which had about 12,000 people present, there was a physical sense of the presence of God coming into the auditorium, blanketing the people as they sang. Not only could I feel his presence, but I could also see it. it was like a big sheet floating down from heaven and falling on the people as they sang. it was awesome.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why people settle for anything less.