You hear people in church sometimes say great worship but the sermon was terrible
I always remember art Katz saying that right before world war 2 , worship was elevated higher than the sermon
Famous sermons that started revivals such as Johnathan Edwards , Johnathan Edwards spoke the sermon by candlelight and his voice was not great but god used him . I wish sinners in the hands of an angry god would be reading for most mega churches.
As working in the Christian bookshop I am not ignorant of the techniques and the manipulation that is used in worship as up in grapevine a conference I was taught some techniques
I love worship music but when it is given second place to the word of god or the bible my heart breaks as most ministers would not know a lexicon or how to use a bible commentary , it is almost like the Holy Spirit has only inspired the current generation not the great men of old throughout the centuries , ministers should be both on there knees and in study
What breaks my heart is that when some ministers speak they tend to say this bible is a story so by the time people have left church they think the bible and Jesus are just myths not real life biographies of real people who we are going to meet. When we study a book like Ephesians we can bring up all the archaeology and objects in which they have found. Ephesus has hundreds of artefacts, even obscure objects such as balaAms seal from the book of numbers or Jezebel’s seal or the tel Dan inscriptions, there is a series online called bible land passages
It is sad to think that people copy secular musicians who have sold there souls to the devil or channel there music through demons
What ends up happening is that church services become a rock concert with a pep talk ar the end