What About the Current State of the Worship Industry?
What About the Current State of the Worship Industry? In 1999, as a young student at a Christian college (Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri), I set out to study church music. My degree program advisor, who'd been at the college since 1964, asked me the following question: "What is worship?". I have no idea how I answered Dr Calvin Johannson in that moment, but his facial expression didn't look 100% pleased with my response. How would I answer the question today? I'd say, worship is bowing low to a highly exalted, holy God. He must increase, I must be made small. I think of face down prostration. This putting ourselves into a place of humility while exalting an all powerful and sovereign God (who alone is the Author of salvation and who is the only One who holds the power of damnation) is 100% appropriate. As we humble ourselves and lift up God, we have a sense of awe. There is a tangible sense of the envelopment in God's love toward us. We do this wi...