0 Comments
Featuring the song “For Those Who Can’t Speak” this music video uses the message #SLAVESNOMORE in a call to raise awareness about human slavery.
Use what you have if even so small. Use your time for those who have little left. Use your hands for those who are chained. Use your voice for those who can't speak. Source: Crosswalk.com By: Todd Pruitt There is a great misunderstanding in churches of the purpose of music in Christian worship. Churches routinely advertise their “life-changing” or “dynamic” worship that will “bring you closer to God” or “change your life.” Certain worship CD’s promise that the music will “enable you to enter the presence of God.” Even a flyer for a recent conference for worship leaders boasted: "Join us for dynamic teaching to set you on the right path, and inspiring worship where you can meet God and receive the energy and love you need to be a mover and shaker in today’s world…Alongside our teaching program are worship events which put you in touch with the power and love of God." The problem with the flyer and with many church ads is that these kinds of promises reveal a significant theological error. Music is viewed as a means to facilitate an encounter with God; it will move us closer to God. In this schema, music becomes a means of mediation between God and man. But this idea is closer to ecstatic pagan practices than to Christian worship.
Jesus is the only mediator between God and man. He alone is the One who brings us to God. The popular but mistaken notions regarding worship music undermine this foundational truth of the Christian faith. It is also ironic that while many Christians deny the sacramental role of those ordinances which the Lord Himself has given to the church (baptism and the Lord’s Supper) they are eager to grant music sacramental powers. Music and “the worship experience” are viewed as means by which we enter the presence of God and receive his saving benefits. There is simply no evidence whatsoever in Scripture that music mediates direct encounters or experiences with God. This is a common pagan notion. It is far from Christian. READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE
Source: Max Lucado
If you look hard enough and long enough, you’ll find something to complain about! Adam and Eve did. Surrounded by all they needed, they set their eyes on the one thing they couldn’t have. The followers of Moses did. They could’ve focused on the miracles, but instead they focused on their problems. What are you looking at? The one fruit you can’t eat? Or the million you can? The manna or the misery? Philippians 4:8 says “Whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, lovely, of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy, meditate on these things.” Even the garden of Eden looks gray to some. But it needn’t to you. Jesus who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus! Give every day a chance! From Great Day Every Day |
Welcome!
The official Christian Culture blog of Grok Radio! Subscribe Here:
|