Let the music in church be about God!

Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts ~ Colossians 3:16. 

Music in church is not about whether our worship music is new or old… contemporary vs traditional. It’s not about having a really great praise band or having a kind old organist.   

The problem today is that there is a lot of individualism existing in Christianity … I stand as a person expressing myself to God along with others doing the same. But, that’s not ‘Christian’ worship. 

Corporate praying and prayers have fallen out of service. Prayer is a corporate act. Singing is sung prayer. Paul said Col 3:15-16, "Let the peace of God rule in your hearts to which you are called to one body, let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly with all wisdom. How, teaching and admonishing one another in singing Psalms and hymns in spiritual song"… 

We should not be looking for a ‘worship experience’ … because, it’s not just about me it’s about others too. Songs have to be good enough for the Word of Christ to dwell in us richly… We telling each other this in song… we are to talking/singing to God and each other… 

We are not to be entertained… our focus should be on God and what He has revealed. Its part of the ministry of the Word… not a time to express yourself. 

Worship is preaching the Word praising the Lord, it’s not looking into ourselves retrospectively for some kind spiritual (yogi) insight but we are looking out up to God and to others in Love, praising His Name. 

We come together to receive His Word, to lament and to present our bodies as a living sacrifice… 

 to sanctify her (wife as the church), cleansing her by the washing with water through the word ~ Ephesians 5:26.

1 Corinthians 14:15
What then shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.

Ephesians 5:19
Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord...








*Remember brothers/sisters in Christ, every church service is the worship of God... not each other, not the pastor, not the music leader, or the building, or the community, the fun festival, the soup kitchen or the ladies bible study or the men's chili cook off... etc.