The Scriptures include or allude to just about every approach to worship there is: organized, spontaneous, public, private, simple, complex, ornate, or plain. Yet there is no comment anywhere about any one way being preferred over another. Rather, it is the spiritual condition of the worshiper that determines whether or not God is at work. This fact alone countermands the tendency to assume that if we could just find the correct or fashionably relevant system, all will be well and God will come down. This doesn’t imply that we have no responsibility to make intelligent and sensitive choices or to be creative. But whatever these choices eventually are, they are incapable all by themselves of establishing the superiority of one system over another.
I have alot to say on this matter, but I'll save that for a future post. For now, I'll just ask this question: If this is true (and I think it is), then why in most churches in America do we spend 95% of the time talking about forms and stylistic preferences instead of "the spiritual condition of the worshiper"?
