tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1529625177060889765.post4536618718467532947..comments2023-07-25T03:42:59.018-04:00Comments on Unfolding freedom: Rethinking 'Worship'Bino M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02303467552834533436noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1529625177060889765.post-74394469390086917822008-02-20T11:32:00.000-05:002008-02-20T11:32:00.000-05:00Bob,It's bad that you lost it.But again, Thanks fo...Bob,<BR/><BR/>It's bad that you lost it.But again, Thanks for reading and encouraging!Bino M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02303467552834533436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1529625177060889765.post-62255707079792505262008-02-19T12:19:00.000-05:002008-02-19T12:19:00.000-05:00I wrote a comment and lost it all, so all I will s...I wrote a comment and lost it all, so all I will say is that I agree with you.<BR/><BR/>Worshipping Him<BR/>Bobbobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08384128590356457347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1529625177060889765.post-4559430186829767112008-02-18T08:55:00.000-05:002008-02-18T08:55:00.000-05:00Aida and Nicole,Thank you for the comments.What ma...Aida and Nicole,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for the comments.<BR/><BR/>What matters in a new covenant Christian walk is 'faith expressing itself through love' (Gal 5:6). Nothing else. Nothing we do or don't do matters. I have seen people striving to reach out to God in the so called worship services. We can't reach out to God, instead he reached out to us in love. Now as His children, we are to walk in faith, in a trust relationship with Christ. Thats a moment by moment basis and it is an act of spiritual worship. It is simple, beautiful and practical! We humans don't like simplicity so make things complicated and messy.<BR/><BR/>In many such worship services as I mentioned in the blog, what is happening is nothing but emotional mysticism. It is a deception. It has all the focus on 'sight', miracles, supernatural manifestations. When we are looking for such, are we walking by faith?<BR/>Faith in the fact that He has <I>already</I> done everything needed on our behalf and we are now given everything we need for life and godliness in Christ.Bino M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02303467552834533436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1529625177060889765.post-89504577167570232312008-02-13T00:04:00.000-05:002008-02-13T00:04:00.000-05:00Bino!Hey, what you have expressed here is where my...Bino!<BR/><BR/>Hey, what you have expressed here is where my heart is exactly. Except you know how to word it better than I could. Amen to all of it! When reading your post, I was overwhelmed with how unfortunate it was to grow up 'worshipping', hardly and rarely touching the surface of Father. I can remember in the services always having a weird feeling during 'praise and worship' people staring at me the whole time and always having an awkward feeling of not being able to be intimate enough with Father, if that makes sense. I could always sense that something was missing or something was never really right. Now its so clear to me that having a relationship with Father doesn’t mean that I have to or should spent my time with Father worshipping in front of all these people! To me, it becomes more about people than Father, the focus seems a bit off in some experiences I have had. Another thing that got under my skin and now just trying to let it go is the dress code. I could go on and on about this one because it has been a huge angst in my life for years, even when I was still involved in attendance. I remember specifically being ‘taken aside’ when I was younger, not by my parents but by some of the elders and pastors wives, that wearing shorts was not aloud. I was eight or nine years old. Need I say more? Yikes. <BR/><BR/>(Okay now let it go Nicole) <BR/><BR/>I am so blessed that you took this subject and got down to the heart of the matter. It has helped me realize what worship is all about, and it is having a heart to heart fellowship with our Father and so much more than I can comprehend. <BR/><BR/>In Freedom, Nicole!Nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00043902043758568457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1529625177060889765.post-65438460384425287612008-02-12T22:50:00.000-05:002008-02-12T22:50:00.000-05:00Hi Bino,Some great thoughts on worship. True wors...Hi Bino,<BR/><BR/>Some great thoughts on worship. True worship like everything else has been hijacked by religion and given a meaning that can be measured . . . how loud we sing, how fast we dance, how many instruments are involved, do we pray in tongues. These are all things that can be measured with the natural eye and can look really good to the observer.<BR/><BR/>True worship, however, is of the heart and often is only visible to Father. It's between him and the worshipper. I don't see corporate worship mentioned in the scriptures and certainly not in the way it is used today. <BR/><BR/>I really like the Romans 12:1 scripture you gave. I've never noticed that it gives a clear definition of what true worship is. Thanks for sharing that.<BR/><BR/>While I don't particularly care about singing too much, I tend to be a little hyper at times so I love to dance. The group that I hang out with call themselves Presbyterians so they're a pretty quiet group. They're also pretty tolerant so they I get positive comments because I get out in the aisle and dance although no one joins me.<BR/><BR/>In other words, I'm pretty physical during the music part but I understand that's not really worship. For me, it's more celebration and enjoyment and it is one of the ways, I sense Father more easily. I also know it's easy to go through the motions with the wrong motives. However, people tend to think I'm spiritual because I dance.<BR/><BR/>I think it's great to celebrate together but because we haven't understood that's not necessarily worship, we have once again come short of experiencing true worship.<BR/><BR/>"According to Romans 12:1, act of worship is an attitude of our heart, totally surrendering the members of our body for the glorious work of Christ in and through us." This is a great definition and I think it says it all.<BR/><BR/>AidaAidahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09885702269506142727noreply@blogger.com