Culture has affected the focus of worship | Rapp Report Daily 0167 | Striving for Eternity
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- Welcome to The Rapid Pull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. How is the Western society affecting the church?
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- Even though we see that Christianity had such a huge influence on Western culture, now we see
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- Western culture influencing the church. And we see it sometimes in very subtle ways.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- God is, and who God is. Everything we do in the church should be about Him first and foremost.
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- And yet, think about much of the music that is sung in churches today.
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- Who is the main character in most of the music? Me, myself, and I, and not
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- God. That's right. If you think about it, many of the songs even that talk about God, talk about what
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- God did for me. And how good God is to me. And how
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- God has done things for me, not God. We should be leaving church going, how great is
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- God, not how great am I. This is a way that we end up seeing that Western culture has influenced the church.
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- We've taken the minds and eyes off of Christ and God, and put it on self.
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- That shouldn't happen. This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content, or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org