Church Isn't Group
Therapy or Mere Entertainment!
Real
Biblical worship must be centered on the one true Triune God. If the
congregation makes itself and its wants a higher priority than God; if it is
more important for them to please themselves than to please God, then their
priorities are skewed and their worship is not God pleasing.
That's
the problem with so many churches today – Is it a church, or group therapy for
narcissists? Now, group therapy can be good, but it's deceptive to pass it off
as worship! In addition, Christians are not just secular people with secular
values attending a weekly talent show and sing-a-long. If worship is entirely
driven by the congregation’s taste and demands, then it has very little to do
with praising God and serving Him.
A
church’s role is to give people what they need, and teach them how to want what
they truly need. What people need is to hear is law and Gospel, sin and grace.
Even believers must be constantly guided and taught how to worship properly and
live according to God's will. Church is for worship, first and foremost. And
that's the point!
1 comment:
Nice post! Worship is NOT what we do for God...but what He does for us! We need to constantly hear this through the Means of Grace in Word and Sacrament!
Joe
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