I feel like in the U.S. we have this whole poison of “church shopping” and that is something actually Satan uses to try to destroy the church as a whole. I maintain 100% that church is about God and that we all need to train ourselves to worship IN SPITE OF how things are “packaged.”

For example, when someone in Bangledesh, or Sri Lanka, or China first accepts Christ, they don’t then start to worry about, “Am I a Baptist? A Wesleyan? A Pentecostal? A non-denominational evangelical?” NO. They are in awe over the living God who saves, and worship HIM. They’ll go to whatever teacher they can find and worship God with whatever music they learn of or create….

Here in the U.S. [and all of the west, really,] we are all about “the church experience,” and I believe it is sinful.

It is our duty to corporally worship God. To have preferences is a luxury and one that damages our impact. People become so defensive of their “style” that non-believers see our differences more than what makes us the same.

Corporal worship – it shouldn’t matter what music is sung, or banners are hung, or how and when communion is passed, or what people are wearing. We make such a big deal about the trappings when all that should matter is, “Is the message doctrinally sound? Does the music honor God?”


It is up to us to make worship meaningful. But the point is that it is meaningful to GOD… not us.

Parents… Have you read “Parenting in the Pew?” It is excellent and it reminds us that raising godly kids is not about having them entertained. It is about having them hearers and doers of the Word.