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?
April 17, 2008 at 1:21 am
You did a great job at the worship seminar. That is a good thought to ponder. I will think about this some… It’s really interesting. Glad to see your here on wordpress. I will check back often!
May 25, 2008 at 1:34 pm
James , Kingdoms Greetings
I am 46 years young and went through the seventies. I still love rock classics , R&B
all the music of that era(late 50`s 60`s and 70`s). I constantly here the artists of that time truly seeking like you say , something!? I believe in my heart that even unconsciously they are seeking our Lord. Listen to almost anything from Kansas and these gents were definitely seeking ( I know kerry livgren is now a believer but back then when he was writing he said he didn`t know why he was writing what he was writing. Blind Faiths ” prescence of the Lord” Frank Marino and mahogony Rush`s “Ordinary Man”. Cat Stevens, Bob Dillon, John Lennon the list goes on and on.
These artists reference God so much there is no doubt they were trying to find their way. I believe to a certain extent some of the tunes they wrote are worhip songs
and they didn`t know they were writing them. I still am brought to tears when I listen to prescence of the Lord (among others) by Blind Faith (Steve Windwood)
Phileo,
Rick