Worship

You can enter 6 different churches in America and you will experience 6 different types of worship to God. Even the same denomination does not worship the same way within the setting of the local church. However, what is important the heart of that worship. How your heart worships God, it is so easy to get distracted from worshipping God in church. From girlfriends, to people's clothing, to bad singers, to messing up on musical instruments, to loud singers in the congregation, and the list goes on. However, wether your worship is lifting your hands, closing your eyes, standing straight, sitting, clapping, or just being in service, what really matters is how your heart worships. 

What is key for worship is the personal worship of the individual. It is not how pretty the leader sings or who sings in the choir but is is how the people in church worship within their own hearts. When the hearts of the people in line with God and they are open for God to fill them up, that is when denominational lines are crossed and the walls of separation are torn down. I enjoy loud music, and so in church I enjoy loud music. I enjoy soft music, so in church i enjoy soft music. I have found that I can and need to be able to worship no matter the song and no matter the setting. 

I have had the great opportunity to preach in 6 different denominations. Each worship service very different from the next, but I have found one thing common in all of them. When the people of God come together in worship with open hearts ready to give God their very best and those on stage are focused completely on him then it is a beautiful thing to behold. It is then that regardless of how you worship or what style you like, you find true enjoyment of worship and I believe it is in that all of heaven rejoices and GOd is glorified the most. When we drop the theology and doctrine and just focus on him that is when he find out who God really is.