Apostoic worship??

[Esaias]

The silence is deafening...

[jediwill83]

Originally Posted by Esaias

The silence is deafening...

I no longer seek out feelings in worship

[Aquila]

Feelings were designed in us by God. While we can't live entirely by feelings, to insist that one must not feel is dehumanizing.

There must be a balance.

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by Aquila

Feelings were designed in us by God. While we can't live entirely by feelings, to insist that one must not feel is dehumanizing.

There must be a balance.

Use the Schwartz and open your mind to the fact that NOBODY said "we must not feel."

[Aquila]

Why are we beating up a brother over the style of music or songs that opens his soul to feel given spiritual realities that draw his focus towards the Lord? I'm sure he doesn't agree with the words or message of every song.

Here's a recording of worship as Jesus and the Apostles would have known it:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLE...&v=--UABwqW9Sg

[mfblume]

We don't worship to feel, we worship because God deserves it.

One time a man in our church in the 90's said it's he hadn't been to church if he doesn't feel anything. I told him I couldn't remember the last time I thought that way. We have church gatherings because God requires it of us. He's God and we serve Him. Period. If we feel something, and we will, bonus! But that's not the point.

[houston]

Are you really asking “why?”

[houston]

Im ok with some of the Baptist/Pentecostal songs but to me they are not even close to the heavenly wonder I have felt in the more modern praise and worship.

[houston]

Man... if I went by what I didn’t feel...

[Esaias]

Notice: on the one hand "we are not to be directed by our feelings". But on the other hand, " if you don't feel it then it's as lifeless as a catholic mass."

This is what Orwell called doublethink, and what is generally known as cognitive dissonance.