Culture has affected the focus of worship | Rapp Report Daily 0167 | Striving for Eternity

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Western Individualism and Its Influence on the Church

How is the Western society affecting the church? Even though we see that Christianity had such a huge influence on Western culture, now we see Western culture influencing the church, and we see it sometimes in very subtle ways.

Here's one that maybe you've been aware of in your church, or others possibly. But you know, there is a individualistic mindset of Western thinking, that we are individuals and everything becomes about us.

Me, myself, and I. However, when you end up going to church, where everything should be about the worship of God, that means to be in awe of how great God is, and who God is. Everything we do in the church should be about Him first and foremost.

Self-Focused Worship in Church Music

And yet, think about much of the music that is sung in churches today. Who is the main character in most of the music? Me, myself, and I, and not God. That's right. If you think about it, many of the songs even that talk about God, talk about what God did for me, and how good God is to me, and how God has done things for me, not God.

We should be leaving church going, how great is God, not how great am I. This is a way that we end up seeing that Western culture has influenced the church, where we've taken the minds and eyes off of Christ and God, and put it on self.

That shouldn't happen.

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