Reading through a few more blogs today and came across rick & 1j13.
Rick highlighted something that I find quite disturbing. Worship Leader – 2003 Praise Awards. Now people can be judged by other people as to how well they praise God? Has it really gone this far? We’ve turned worship of the true and living God into an industry – a tacky one at that. How is it that these people can’t see that what they’re doing is wrong? How do we stop this kind of nonsense?
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For some people, everything’s a competition. hehe. I say that, and I’m thinking of myself. 8^)
You know, in the spirit of the thing, it’s not all that bad – but the nature of posting the nmminees means that there will be “losers”, if even in a small sense. And then, if you win – woo hoo, I won! – just doesn’t seem appropriate, and even “I give this back to Jesus” has a little self-pride sound to it.
Now if there’s cash involved – count me in 🙂
This has to be the scariest thing I’ve read today! 🙂 I know however, how hard a job it is to lead a variety of people, each with their unique needs, into corporate worship.
How do they judge – on a good voice, a good stage presence, or sufficient hyping-up of the attendees? Would be interesting to see what kind of thought processes happen behind-scenes…
Oh, that’s easy – numbers at the altar call. A nice, objective figure you could work into a top 40 chart of some type (“this week, coming in at number 3 with a bullet after 250 came down the aisle in their last service…”). It’s about time we started measuring God’s blessings in real terms.
Yeah, praising God cannot be an industry. God blesses as He sees fit. It’s not our job. I actually already heard two pastors talking and one said to the other, not jokingly, “God blesses my church more than He blesses your church!” It really has come to this, and we need to refocus.
(By the way, Rodney, thanks for your comment on my page a while back. You’re right, my blog is for God and myself, and if people don’t like it, it can’t phase me.)
scary and depressing stuff.