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Praise Leader - The Job that Never Was
« on: August 28, 2015, 06:35:12 PM »
What do you all say?  Is our currently accepted worship model (church structure) so far removed from God's standard?

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Re: Praise Leader - The Job that Never Was
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2015, 09:58:34 PM »
"Using worldly and satanic music for God's worship"

I heard that phrase and I stopped watching as to not waste my time on yet another misguided American yahoo who thinks that the only correct Christian music is that which is similar to what we'd hear while watching the church scenes from reruns of Little House on the Prairie.
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Re: Praise Leader - The Job that Never Was
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2015, 11:24:34 PM »
I heard that phrase and I stopped watching as to not waste my time on yet another misguided American yahoo who thinks that the only correct Christian music is that which is similar to what we'd hear while watching the church scenes from reruns of Little House on the Prairie.

You give him way too much credit.  I actually think that Little House on the Prairie would be too contemporary by his standards.
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Re: Praise Leader - The Job that Never Was
« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2015, 08:02:28 PM »
What do you all say?  Is our currently accepted worship model (church structure) so far removed from God's standard?

The Job That Never Was!

I don't think the model or structure carries any weight with God.  I believe:
 
Jeremiah 17:8-9
9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

10 I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.


Whatsoever the model or structure the Lord will search the hearts of those giving the worship.  He will accept or reject it.  Our view of it carries no weight.  It (the worship) can be good or bad despite the origin. 

Where it came from has no effect on us in many situations:

I Corinthians 8:1-8

Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

3 But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

4 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.

5 For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

6 But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

7 Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

8 But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

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Re: Praise Leader - The Job that Never Was
« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2015, 08:39:58 PM »
While I don't think "Worship Leader" was a Biblical position, I do believe that God gave the church liberty on how to handle these types of affairs.  If the elders and the congregation is okay with that structure, then why not?

It only becomes a problem when it becomes a burden to the church and hinders God's work.

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