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I recently attended a conference for worship pastors. It was an amazing experience and if you haven't ever been to one, you need to go. The worship was incredible. Prominent bands and worship leaders led us in amazing times of worship. The presence of God was so real and so inviting. As I observed worship leaders and their teams during the week I was taken back by the amount of people that had "that look". Have you seen people with "that look"? There is nothing wrong with "that look". There is nothing wrong with having better hair than the average woman or even having a cool earring to sport around. There is nothing bad about chasing "that look". Sure Chris Tomlin and Lincoln Brewster are studs and we all want to look that good leading worship. We wish we were skinny dudes with tight jeans and culturally relevant threads. Come on, be honest with yourself. These guys are cool with a capital "C". They look the part.
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There's no questioning the ubiquity of television in our lives. It's all around us! The cultural presence of the screen has become such that most of us have come to depend on video as our primary form of mass communication. We've even put them in our sanctuaries!
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Eight years ago I spoke with a retiring pastor whose tenure, long and successful, was ending after several particularly challenging years. I can still hear his comment: "Lee, the programs and approaches I've used in 30 years of ministry no longer work!"
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A positive take on change and encouragement to help less-mature believers to understand "revival".
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Good worship takes effort - on the part of planners and participants alike. The first problem we must point out is that because many congregations have turned worship into what pleases people instead of "the work of the people" (leitourgia), they have given in to the consumers' wishes to be merely entertained, lazy, mindless, just like the world, successful, or rebellious against all that the Church has been.
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