Worship … Not!

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Jay F Guin

Thanks to Vicki.

About Jay F Guin

My name is Jay Guin, and I’m a retired elder. I wrote The Holy Spirit and Revolutionary Grace about 18 years ago. I’ve spoken at the Pepperdine, Lipscomb, ACU, Harding, and Tulsa lectureships and at ElderLink. My wife’s name is Denise, and I have four sons, Chris, Jonathan, Tyler, and Philip. I have two grandchildren. And I practice law.
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9 Responses to Worship … Not!

  1. Jerry Starling says:
    September 13, 2011 at 7:57 pm

    Is that just tongue in cheek – or is it too close to the truth to be comfortable????

  2. Jay Guin says:
    September 13, 2011 at 8:21 pm

    Jerry,

    Yes.

    It’s tongue in cheek and too close to the truth.

  3. Grizz says:
    September 13, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    PRICELESS!!! I’d like to dedicate a playing of that to my dear friends in the IM discussion ….

    (or at least those who are known to have a sense of humor!)

    Grizz

  4. Amy says:
    September 13, 2011 at 11:49 pm

    Of course, those sentiments are true whether those (or any) songs are sung with or without instruments. My favorites from my coC days were singing Night With Ebon Pinion as if it were the William Tell Overture and singing The Lord Is In His Holy Temple (let all the earth keep silence before Him) at the top of our lungs. The command to sing and make melody in our hearts is not a command to exclude instruments, but a command to sing with our hearts. We can sing vocally without the heart and we’re still wrong – whether we use instruments as aids or not.

  5. adoptingmama says:
    September 14, 2011 at 12:05 am

    I laughed til I cried and then I cried because it wasn’t laughable at all….funny, haha…umm,…oh-oh…hmm

  7. Pastor Mike says:
    September 14, 2011 at 3:59 am

    Amy, I absolutely agree. Many years ago I offered a list of alternative song titles for some favorite hymns so we could sing what we really felt. The one that go the most reaction was the alternative for “Take My Life and Let it Be” (consecrated, Lord, for Thee) I suggested “Take My Wife and Let Me Be.”

    Most of the IM debate misses the point of what worship is supposed to be about.

  8. X-Ray says:
    September 14, 2011 at 4:50 pm

    They forgot “Jesus paid it most, in my works I boast.” 🙂

  9. Doug says:
    September 14, 2011 at 10:13 pm

    Me and my buddies used to sing “Lord lift me up… and sit me down”… The old folk never caught on.

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