Praise God Almighty! I'm so glad someone is posting this. I have led worship in churches several times, and also been a part of numerous worship teams, and that business of telling people they need to worship has always kind of sickened me. Thankfully it did not occur on teams I was on, maybe because they were good enough that they facilitated worship and the people didn't have to be somehow told to.
But I have seen this approach in some Hispanic churches, and boy does it rub me the wrong way. It strikes me as compounding an already bad problem and making it far, far worse.
Very good post, and glad you shared this. Maybe if more people did we wouldn't have the phenomenon of being somehow
coerced into worshipping God "from the heart."