Some opinions wanted

[meBNme]

I walked out of a "Church" service once.

It was promoted heavily as a "Praise concert, FREE to the public"

We were there 45 min, they had taken up 6 offerings, and were on the 7th.
At the beginning of EVERY song, and at the end of EVERY offering, there was this big spiel about how "we fixin ta git our PRAISE on up in heah!!" and "Now we gonna worship and bring down the Holy Ghost in dis house!!".
Three songs were singing ABOUT praise, and how "we gon dance an shout" but not one song ever actually spoke good things of God, or of his character or what he means to us. Only ONE song, mentioned Jesus, only two times. And it was to basically say, "we are Jesus people".
There was no worship, no praise and absolutely no anointing or moving of any spirit but self aggrandizement, greed, self promotion, and putting on a show to sell Cd's.

We kept waiting for the worship to start, we even tried starting it. If you were not performing some perfectly choreographed "dance" or swaying just right with the crowd, you were looked at like a freak. Don't even try to actually raise your hands or praise with your mouth unless the song said, "This is how I raise my hands" over and over 47 times.

Maybe it was just me, but I didn't feel any moving of the spirit or even a sense of worship over "This is how I raise my hands" repeated over and over just because the music was hoppin.

We left.

It was all a show, it was all about money.

We have since not purchased one song produced by those highly publicised, highly reputed (and in my opinion, highly fake) performers.

Don't just brag about how you gonna praise and how good a groove you can cut.
Get out there and DO IT. but do it unto God, not to promote your next CD and boost your rep.