“Biblically, it doesn’t matter what you get out of worship, it’s not for you.”

A thought by Darren Whitehead and Jon Tyson (2011-07-19) from their book, Rumors of God: Experience the Kind of Faith You´ve Only Heard About (Kindle Location 1440). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

It is so interesting how self-absorbed we as professed Christ-followers can be. We think that life is all about us.

An individual came up to Jon Tyson after one of their Worship Gatherings here in New York City and they said, “I didn’t mind the teaching, but I didn’t like the worship.” Jon then said to him, “Biblically, it doesn’t matter what you get out of worship, it’s not for you.” And that is true. We need to be reminded of that fact don’t we?

I’ve been to Jon’s church, Trinity Grace and I do appreciate what they are doing. His preaching really speaks to issues of our day and their worship leaders at the three different locations that I have been to truly do lead us in worship. But in this day of production in the church worship world it sometimes is easy to get sucked into the belief that it is for us to listen to and enjoy and have an opinion. But we are not the audience, He is.

What would we do differently if we really worshiped with God in mind? Do you think it would it really matter if we liked the songs or not? Somehow we have gotten all of this church stuff it seems a little out of focus. We are His followers. We worship Him. We do what He wants. Not we do certain things and He does what we want.

Somehow we need to come to grips with the fact that this is our practice time for heaven. If we think that heaven is all about us then we have a big surprise coming. It is all about Him. We really need to change our way of thinking don’t we? Let’s start this week, this Sunday. Ok? Ok!

Does that make sense?

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