Would Jesus Be Pleased With Modern Worship?
 

Would Jesus enjoy and/or recognize modern "worship?"

Praise dancing?

Aisle running?

Screaming Halleljuah really loud?

i think he would like my flags. They're really nice :)

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Would he enjoy the preachers screaming "My God, People!" every time the saints didn't respond as loudly as they liked?

WWJD if he DID come to our service (in flesh) and as he tried to speak to us, the organist started giving Him preacher' chords?

ok, i know stupid :)

Well I don't think flags are in order.

Paul didn't use 'em.

How about speaking in tongues in the microphone at about 100 decibals?

David did. (don't ask me to prove it)

We use flags and streamers. We have a tambourine team as well.

Think Beatitudes to the African-American organist stylings.

:yourock

Raise up a standard

No thanks.

or "C'mon People! We can do better than that! Don't you know who I am?!??"

No way... Paul would not be pleased

Shameful.

WWJD?

I loved the time I spent overseas although short I really learned some things about Worship...Kids Dancing... whistles...and line stepping... beautiful expressions of worship...

what do we get here in the States???

Folks running into walls...

Please tell me this is TIC and not reality?

I think he'd inhabit the temple, just like he did David's Tabernacle...where there were "praise hoops", tambourines, and structured praise dancing as well as spontaneous dancing :hanky
:bliss

shame that so many christians deny our hebraic roots.

[QUOTE]I really have seen guys run around with their eyes closed and smack into the wall.:tattle

You mean like Deut 6:4?

LOL

or right thru the sheetrock. I saw on chuch that all the pews were broken loose from the floor.....from idiots running om the back of them....you see this shows that you are more apostolic than the brother who just runs the aisles.

The Shema?

Have you not heard it? I know I have... "We can do better than that!"

It means absolutely nuthin. Well it does actually... but I'll refrain.

I remember hearing JJ preach that if the Apostles Peter and Paul walked up to a UPC and went inside they would immediately feel right at home. I tried to picture that scene in my mind.

That's when it occured to me that Peter and Paul would probably never go inside because they would want to spend an hour or two on the front porch just inspecting the light bulb.

I was referring to the "Do you know who I am?" phrase.

Brother, it has been years since I attended either a UPC or ALJC church, so I am definitely out of the loop.

I have fond memories of both, but no desire to go back.

You were in town? Why didn't you introduce yourself and say "Hi."?

I would like to think that He would be happy with our/my worship...

Of course Monk. We were talking about "other" people!

Nooooo, not here on AFF, say it ain't so:ursofunny

Well Pastor Poster started it!

Gonna hafta change that boy's name to PastorThad .:yourock

I think they would understand dancing for joy. Not sure about aisle running. I'm sure they'd be familiar with outbursts of praise like yelling Hallelujah. However....the concert like atmosphere of the local church would be lost on them. Throughout the book of Acts and for nearly the next 250 years Apostolic Christians mostly met in homes as a spiritual family...not large church buildings. Any musical accompaniment was most likely simple stringed instruments based on a reference in I Corinthians.

The preaching they were familiar with wouldn't be the virbrado filled tone of preaching we've grown accustomed too. The word "preached" in Greek is "dialegomai". It is a word we get our English word "dialogue" from. It brings the connotation of an expositional teaching that allows for questions and discussion. Sometimes to "preach" simply means to declare or reveal.

I believe they would most likely recognize a group of 15-20 people sitting in a living room of a brother singing as another brother played the guitar. Then there would be prayer and the teacher would teach on a passage of Scripture. There would be a period of listening and then there would be a period of discussion where questions could be asked and the congregants would learn essential Christian principles. Then if any were saved there would be repentance, prayer, infilling, and a walk to the riverside or poolfor baptism.

No covered dish or a bag of doritos?

But seriously, excellent points.

THEY?



:) Seriously... Great Post!

Brother Hall, excellent post.

Dancing and shouting both seem to have biblical basis, but not running

Huh? Are backflips out too??

Honestly I just don't consider it "worship"...in the sense of praise. I consider it "rejoicing" or for some just plain "show offmainship" :bliss

Yeah, yeah, Prax. And shaving your back is, what? http://apostolicfriendsforum.com/ima...ons/icon10.gif