I spent two days in the hospital this past weekend.  From what i can gather, I had some sort of intestinal infection that rendered me emergency-room-bound on Friday afternoon.  All things considered, I’m home now and feeling much better (and even eating solid food again).  yey.

worship/not worship

Last Saturday I had the priveledge of teaching on worship to a group of people at Hilltown Baptist Church here in Pennsylvania.  I feel like it turned out to be a great time of discussion and brainstorming as we tossed around questions about the topic of worship.  Additionally, i had the opportunity to share about my theology of worship.  During one of the activities i played a number of song clips and posed the question “is this a worship song?”  The idea was that basically i would consider them all to be worship songs because i think we are constantly worshipping something, whether that be God, ourselves, another person, or something else entirely.  And the songs often talked about things like fame or love.  The question i still wrestle with, however, is whether or not to call all songs “worship songs.”  Is all music worship?  Instrumental?  Non-instrumental?  Content? Where is the line drawn?  And for that matter: is all art worship?