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Originally Posted by MissBrattified
No, but if you're directing that music, singing or dancing toward God, then I think it qualifies. 
Obviously you have a different perspective, NOW, and one I completely disagree with. Praying doesn't equate praise, either--unless you're praying to God.
You're cynically applying motives to people you don't know. "attention getting" "self-indulgent" "...completely left Jesus out of the process."
Really? How do you know they're singing and playing just to get attention? How do you know it's self-indulgent? What makes you think they left Jesus out of the process? You would have to be inside their heads to know those things, and you obviously aren't. Just because something doesn't appeal to you doesn't mean it lacks spiritual meaning.
Frankly, only applying spiritual meaning to the types of praise that appeal to you personally is the epitome of self-indulgence.  |
But you're condemning me for doing the same thing you're doing yourself. You aren't inside their heads either but you've draw the conclusion that they are praising.
Bottom line is, you think it's ok, I don't. I don't believer there's any possible way for that demonstration to pass the very simple
I Corinthians 14 "Don't do things that will make people think you're insane" rule, and I believe that if something is being done that violates scriptural principle, it cannot be
to God or
of God, and if it is not
to God or
of God, it is of the flesh, and therefore,
not praise.
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