Sunday Morning: Divine Service or Worship Experience?

Not all worship is the same — not because of the instruments, but because of the theology behind it.

There is nothing inherently wrong with guitars, and nothing inherently holy about an organ. The real question is this: What is going on theologically in your worship service?

Is worship primarily about what we bring to God — our energy, our emotion, our commitment, our performance? Or is it about what God is giving to us — His Word, His forgiveness, His body and blood, His promises?

In historic Christian liturgy, the center of worship is not our performance for God, but God’s service to us — through the preached Word, the read Word, the sung Word, and the Sacraments.

The Church gathers not to give God something He lacks, but to receive from God what we lack.

That changes everything.