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As worship is viewed as act of elevating
oneself to the throne, the contemporary worshipper denounces those who use doctrinal
arguments to contend against the New Worship they so enthusiastically embrace with lifted
hands. They silence their foes by merely stating that these critics cannot understand the
secret things of God because they depend on reason. And to the mystic, the mind cannot
elevate itself to the knowledge of God. So there is no disputing those who have set
themselves up as being the ones who have the inside track to spirituality. Thus being “transformed by the
renewing of your mind” (Rom 12:2) to the New Worshipper is all about entering into an
altered state of consciousness to enter into the supernatural world to behold the glory of
God. They contend that this heavenly experience reconditions the mind as it is transformed
by God’s spirit from glory to glory. However, when Paul talked about “the
Spirit of the Lord” transforming us, he was not recommending some existential leap of
faith into the unknown. Neither was he encouraging believers to worship their way to God.
The Bible specifically indicates that the Spirit resides within believers and that is why
we behold “as in a mirror the glory of the Lord.” Inside each believer is where
the transformation takes place rather than through some external quest into the
supernatural world. Consider the following scriptures: “Now we have received, not the
spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that
have been freely given to us by God.” (I Cor Therefore the Bible clearly announces that
our minds are transformed and we are changed as a result of God’s saving grace even
as God’s Holy Spirit now dwells within us. “But you are not in the flesh but in
the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the
Spirit of Christ, he is not His. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin,
but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.” (Rom 8:9-10 MKJV) T However, our hedonistic “if it feels
good do it” Hence, while referencing the fact that
during his heavenly vision Isaiah’s unclean lips were touched by an angel as he was
“purified and restored” and anointed to prophecy, New Worshippers contended that
Christians are made holy as they are elevated by an altered state of mind to the throne of
God through worship. (Isa 6) It is while in the middle of these worship experiences that
God’s image and nature are manifested in our lives. The idea is that, rather than
subjecting ourselves to traditional Christian disciplines, we can sing our way to
holiness. The problem here is that in true Babylonian fashion the call is that we need to
reach up to God and build towers that span into the heavens in order to become holy. With
this in mind Bob Sorge revealed in Exploring Worship, “. . .it is not that God
descends to meet us when we praise, but rather we ascend to Him.” Yet the Bible is all about God coming down
to man as Emmanuel “God is with us.” Jesus indicated that He would send His Holy
Spirit to lead us and guide us. Holiness is the result of Christ’s work in us as His
Holy Spirit dwelling inside transforms us. We don’t need heavenly visions in order to
walk the Christian life. Nor should we be reaching up into the supernatural world as the
pagans do in order to seek perfection. There is no where to go to find the God who lives
in us! Consequently, those who seek the glory of God need only to look at the obvious:
“To them God willed to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery
among the Gentiles: which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.” ( Pagans worship to become holy. Christians
worship because they have been made holy. True worship is the manifestation of holiness in
the believer’s life here on earth. And it has nothing to do with being elevated to
the supernatural world through the building of modern Towers of Babel. The body of Christ
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