"Relevance is not the goal... relevance is the tool..." @edstetzer
1 chronicles- david takes his kingly garment off. his wife thinks his worship is irreverent & protests. bible seems to indicate david was being reverent in his worship.
"Most people who are calling for 'reverence' want to return to a preferred past..." @edstetzer
"There is a desire to find 'reverence' in past expressions..." @edstetzer
"Reverence looks different from one culture to the next." @edstetzer
"Worship is our response to who God is and what He has done." ~Mike Harland
"Worship is the volitional act of us engaging in speaking forth the work of God." @edstetzer
"(Worship) expression is often driven by personal preference." @edstetzer
"We fight about musical style, when God can and does use a variety of music styles." @edstetzer
"...blended (worship)... is an exercise built on the wrong foundation. It is built on what do you want? What do I want? How do we negotiate a truce?" @edstetzer
The question we need to be asking is: "What would be the most appropriate cultural form to worship a timeless, unchangeable God?" @edstetzer
"Music will not bring unity, but worship will bring unity." ~Mike Harland
You can watch the discussion of Reverence vs. Relevance, by Ed Stetzer and Mike Harlan,
here."When people get the mission, and say 'It's not all about us...' The church can break forth in powerful ways." @edstetzer
If you want to measure your worship, don't measure it on Sunday @ 11a.m. Instead, measure it @ 8a.m. on Monday morning. (cf. Hebrews 13.15)
