Holy WarsHollywood or Holiness?That's EntertainmentTags: Church Growth, Church Growth Movement, Church growth consultants, worship leader, Satan, That's Entertainment, Hollywood, Tinsel Town, Christian Artist, American Idol, love the Lord with all your heart, love your neighbor as yourself, worship God
The Christian artist, on the other hand,
lives for God rather than for him or herself. He or she does not seek to entertain in You may hate the music. You may love it.
It may make you happy. It may make you mad. But either way it will stir you. You will find
all music entertaining one way or the other. There are many Christian performers who do
not understand this inherent quality of music. Therefore, they take the admonition that
they are not to be primarily entertainers but worshippers instead the wrong way. As a
result they stand on the stage like wooden sticks. They bore you with their stoic
presence. Boring people do not reach people.
Exciting people do, and as Christians we have a lot to be excited about. The idea is to
communicate to people what God has given, and we cannot do this unless our audiences can
see something in us that projects the aspects of the Christian life that make us
different. How can they see our joy unless we show it to them? How can they experience our
peace unless it is displayed? How can they know our sorrows and victories within trials
unless we share them with our listeners? How can they understand our steadfastness in the
faith unless we perform with conviction and real intent? How can they realize the truth
when we are being dishonest with ourselves? Worship is about putting everything that
we are into everything we do. “’And you shall love the Lord your God with all
your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is
the first commandment.’” (Mk Now I can’t see how God can be
worshipped through attention-getting gyrations, demonic exaltations, sexual behavior,
cutting tongues so that you can lick your Adam’s apple and eating live chickens on
stage. But with that understood, put all you have into your worship. If you are a dancer,
then dance with all your heart freely expressing yourself unto Him. Dance for the Lord. If
you sing and play with a whole lot of intensity, then don’t hold back. Sing and play
for the Lord. If you play with an attitude, then let that attitude come from a joyful
heart that seeks to glorify God. Play for the Lord. If you walk around on stage to sing
and play to other musicians, then do it with sincere love and a whole lot of heart. And if
you sing “Praise the Lord,” make sure you mean it. Don’t just do it by rote
or because it is expected of you. Worship the Lord.
The questions that follow are: “What
is it that you are seeking to do? Do you yearn after the attention of men or do you
worship for the pleasure of God? Do you sing and play from the stage to captivate
people’s hearts to yourself or do you seek to minister to their spiritual
needs?” The second part of Jesus’ summation
of the Law was: “’You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’” (Mk
12:31b MKJV) What does that mean to you? Does it mean that you should be seeking your
audience’s worship or demonstrating to them Who to worship? The admonition is to stay away from the Stay Tuned for More!!!! If you liked this CLICK HERE or call Author House @ 888.280.7715 to purchase a soft or hard cover copy of Don Wigton's book "Holy Wars" upon which this blog is based.Click Here to purchase the E-book edition for only 99 cents!
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