So does the place/setting matter? Will God love you more if you worship Him in a million dollar church building? Is there an appropriate building setting that Jesus requires for you to worship Him? 1st of all, the fact that you are even choosing to worship Him, means that you are surrendering to His majesty (to who He is, what He represents).
According to scripture there is not a particular place, God says you can be anywhere; you could maybe have committed the biggest crime in your life and be LOADED with guilt but yet scripture says the following:
Psalm 139 (the Message)
7-12 Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit?
to be out of your sight?
If I climb to the sky, you’re there!
If I go underground, you’re there!
If I flew on morning’s wings
to the far western horizon,
You’d find me in a minute—
you’re already there waiting!
Then I said to myself, “Oh, he even sees me in the dark!
At night I’m immersed in the light!”
It’s a fact: darkness isn’t dark to you;
night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you.
Worshiping Christ in spirit and truth means that “we are real and honest in our worship, knowing that even though we are not perfect, He is. (John 4:23)”.
I must ask the question, does it matter what place you choose to sing songs to/about Jesus?
Is there a difference when you sing to God in a church building oppose to in a bar?
Jesus once met with an adulterous woman who had had 5 husbands (wow) and the men she was currently living with wasn’t even her husband (I guess that makes him a lover, who was already married and maybe even had a family)…but yea she was caught up on the whole topic of worship and the story goes like this:
John 4:19-24
19-20 “Oh, so you’re a prophet! Well, tell me this: Our ancestors worshiped God at this mountain, but you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place for worship, right?”…Jesus answered “…but the time is coming—it has, in fact, come—when what you’re called will not matter and where you go to worship will not matter. 23-24“It’s who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth. That’s the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship. God is sheer being itself—Spirit. Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration.”
So does the place/setting matter? Will God love you more if you worship Him in a million dollar church building? Or in a building where there is a HUGE cross and white dove, and there is nothing but silence? ……To be continued
So this morning’s prayer was all about getting productive and reading God’s word and definitely thanking God for allowing me to live one more day… Lately I feel as though I need to live my life knowing that sooner or later I will no longer exist in this world, yea pretty much I feel that I may not live to see 30, 50 or 60 years or God knows how long, but bottom line is that this feeling has just really been hitting me hard and as a result I have come to understand even more that life is not all about the Benjamens or school accomplishments (not that any of these are bad) but personally I feel that I am to live everyday as if they may be my last…
I want to live for a cause…
Really I did not mean to write about this but there is nothing wrong with freestyling and expressing whats in a brothers heart…Other then that I am enjoying reading about Christ in the book of Mark and how people PRAISED GOD! as they witnessed His power through the healing of the paralytic. This is just another teaching on how musicians are not always necessary to make a loud noise of praise to God. Many times we (musicians) have failed in thinking that w/out us people will not praise God, but the Bible proves us wrong, it is Jesus’s presence in a gathering (or whatever the setting may be) that makes praise rise to Him.
