Worship...from industry to art

As a musician on a worship team, I share Brian McLaren's frustration. How often do we prepare something for a Sunday morning, that is nothing more than an appetizing meal for the hungry consumer. Why do we avoid the tough stuff? When it comes to pain, sorrow and the utter mystery that sometimes surrounds us...where are the lamentations...songs and cries from the valley? Where is the worship, that comes from the imagination of Jesus?

Comments

[jim]

Worship, like prayer, is not completed until we surrender it unto Him. Few know that, however, in an age where we have, ourselves, became the Holy Ghost.....

[ron]

Jim, I hear you brother...my concern is that as faith communities that are filled with the same creative presence that hovered, swirled around the mirky void at the beginning of creation...we show liittle of that reality in our worship. Is the creative presence of the Spirit of God even part of what identifies us...I think we have lost touch with this truth.