Contemporary Worship

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• Lev 103 Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what
  the LORD spoke, saying, 'By those who come near
  Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the
  people I will be honored.'" So Aaron, therefore,
  kept silent.

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Contemporary Worship

• Part Two

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Contemporary

• 1) living or happening in the same period of
  time.
• 2) of about the same age.
• 3) of or in the style of the present or recent
  times modern

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Worship

• 1) a. Reverence or devotion for a deity
  religious homage or veneration. b.
  A church service or other rite showing this.
• 2) Extreme devotion or intense love or
  admiration of any kind.

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• Lev 103 Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what
  the LORD spoke, saying, 'By those who come near
  Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the
  people I will be honored.'" So Aaron, therefore,
  kept silent.

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• Lev 103 Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what
  the LORD spoke, saying, 'By those who come near
  Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the
  people I will be honored.'" So Aaron, therefore,
  kept silent.

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• Lev 103 Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what
  the LORD spoke, saying, 'By those who come near
  Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the
  people I will be honored.'" So Aaron, therefore,
  kept silent.

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• Lev 103 Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what
  the LORD spoke, saying, 'By those who come near
  Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the
  people I will be honored.'" So Aaron, therefore,
  kept silent.

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• Jer 616 Thus says the LORD, "Stand by the ways
  and see and ask for the ancient paths, Where the
  good way is, and walk in it And you will find
  rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not
  walk in it.'

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The Problem With Contemporary Worship

• Poll the neighborhood to see what sorts of
  activities people enjoy and then build a church
  that meets those specifications.
• Downplay religion to avoid offending anyone.
• It has no connection through the centuries to the
  original God ordained worship.

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The Problem With Contemporary Worship

• It throws out all the old things and starts
  completely over from scratch.
• It denies the validity of the old, and
  paradoxically also denies the basis on which it
  claims to stand.
• It has invented a new contemporary religion
  that is based in contemporary marketing
  techniques and expressed in contemporary
  entertainment genres.

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The Problem With Contemporary Worship
In effect, the congregation is worshiping itself !

• It is inherently narcissistic, because it is
  worship the way I want it, in ways that please
  me.
• It asks the question How would a congregation
  of secular people like to be entertained?
• It never asks How does God want to be
  worshiped?

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The Problem With Contemporary Worship

• Our worship must be centered on God.
• If a congregation makes itself a
  higher-priority than God if it is more
  important for them to please themselves than to
  please God, then their priorities are skewed and
  their worship is malformed.
• Do we assemble to worship God, or for
  group-therapy for narcissists?

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• 2Co 1114-15 No wonder, for even Satan disguises
  himself as an angel of light.
• Therefore it is not surprising if his servants
  also disguise themselves as servants of
  righteousness, whose end will be according to
  their deeds.

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How to start a contemporary worship service

• Start slowly (Approach members who have
  demonstrated an interest and will support you.
  Slowly assemble your team.)
• Start by introducing one song during normal
  worship as special music.
• If there is opposition, hold contemporary
  worship at different times (until you gain
  momentum).
• Hire the best possible musicians.

Act 2029-30 I know that after my departure
savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing
the flock and from among your own selves men
will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw
away the disciples after them.
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How to start a contemporary worship service

• Spice it up! Use different perspectives,
  different voices, and fresh music. Invite new
  bands in your community looking for exposure to
  play at your worship.
• Create a spiritual atmosphere and tone. Give
  people the message in manageable bites.
  (People just dont want 20-minute sermons!)
• Break out of the expected time-slots!

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How to start a contemporary worship service

• Think Embodiment! How is your message
  embodied? Are people only encouraged to think,
  or are they asked to move, to feel, to sense? Do
  people get to dance to the wonderful music? Are
  there portions that engage our eyes through
  visual stimulation? Sharing taste sensations is
  another idea for worship think love feasts or
  communions of different sorts.

1Co 1440 But all things must be done properly
and in an orderly manner.
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Contemporary Worship
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Contemporary Worship Service
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Contemporary Worship
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• Mat 157-9 "You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah
  prophesy of you 'THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH
  THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME.
• 'BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS
  DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.'"

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A Rock Singer
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A Rock Band
What Is The Difference?
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Contemporary Worship Service
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• 1Co 1440 But all things must be done properly
  and in an orderly manner.

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• Have You Noticed Something In Common?
• Manner Of Dress Perhaps!

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1Ch 1629 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His
name Bring an offering, and come before Him
Worship the LORD in holy array.
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• Lev 103 Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what
  the LORD spoke, saying, 'By those who come near
  Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the
  people I will be honored.'" So Aaron, therefore,
  kept silent.

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Fun, hot music, no dress code, relevant teaching
a service that will grab your attention and
speak to your soul.
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• 1Pe 29 But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal
  PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God's OWN
  POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the
  excellencies of Him who has called you out of
  darkness into His marvelous light
• 1Pe 210 for you once were NOT A PEOPLE, but now
  you are THE PEOPLE OF GOD you had NOT RECEIVED
  MERCY, but now you have RECEIVED MERCY.
• 1Pe 211 Beloved, I urge you as aliens and
  strangers to abstain from fleshly lusts which
  wage war against the soul.
• 1Pe 212 Keep your behavior excellent among the
  Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they
  slander you as evildoers, they may because of
  your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify
  God in the day of visitation.

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• Jer 616 Thus says the LORD, "Stand by the ways
  and see and ask for the ancient paths, Where the
  good way is, and walk in it And you will find
  rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not
  walk in it.'

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• John 423-24 "But an hour is coming, and now is,
  when the true worshipers will worship the Father
  in spirit and truth for such people the Father
  seeks to be His worshipers. God is spirit, and
  those who worship Him must worship in spirit and
  truth."

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• Lev 103 Then Moses said to Aaron, "It is what
  the LORD spoke, saying, 'By those who come near
  Me I will be treated as holy, And before all the
  people I will be honored.'" So Aaron, therefore,
  kept silent.

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And there arose another generation after them,
which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which
He had done for Israel.
Judges 210b
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Secular Humanism

• Is Here !

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The Philosophy of Secular Humanism

• There Is No God God Does Not Exist.
• Humans Are The Highest Form Of Life.
• Humans Can Should Control All Aspects Of Their
  Lives. (Therefore No One Has The Right To
  Control Our Thinking Or Our Actions.)

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Humanists Biggest Problem

• Removal Of God Also Removes The Basis For
  Morality.
• Without Basic Morality Society Would Be In
  Chaos.
• A Substitute Is Needed.
• So gt

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The Substitute for God Given Morality

• Whatever is best for the State.
• Whatever is best for Society at large.
• Whatever your conception of love moves you to do.
• Whatever makes the most human beings happy.

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Consequences of Secular Humanism

• There is no sin.
• The criminal is not guilty and in need of
  punishment he needs understanding and
  help.
• Teaching our children the concept of sin
  amounts to child abuse because we hurt their
  psyche by making him feel guilty over his
  mistakes.

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The General Population Does Not YET Accept The
Full Theory

• So teach the young values clarification
  destroy all ideas of right wrong.
• Replace the concept of right wrong with
  ideas of ethics whatever is right for
  society.
• Teach values in our schools. We rejoice, not
  recognizing that the values being taught are in
  direct opposition to the values taught in the
  Bible. (Illustration Returned Billfold)

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Since Humanists Think There Is No God

• Therefore the Bible is not Gods word.
• The Bible is way out-of-date.
• The Bible is full of superstitions handed down
  by uneducated forebears.
• Harmful to be used as a guide for living.
• The Bible is an interesting bit of literature
  giving insight as to how primitive- man
  thought.

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Humanists Realize That The Masses Are Not
Ready To Give Up Religion

• They recognize that people are happiest when
  united in organizations.
• Satan loves for people to engage in religion
  (as long as its false / vain does not conform
  to Gods rules) Therefore no attempt to stop
  it.
• It soothes the public to feel that someone loves
  them!

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One Consequence Of This Type Of Religion

• Young men attend seminaries to become
  denominational preachers.
• They are taught that Noah is a lovely myth.
• That Jesus was a man out-of-step with His
  generation a victim of His own teaching.
• Taught that life here is most important.
• So gt

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These Young Men Leave Their Seminaries

• Fall into the Humanists (Satans) trap.
• Return home filled with a zeal to clean up the
  ghettos, to provide for the homeless, to make
  their people love each other, and to provide
  whatever entertainment will make their people
  the happiest.

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(2Co 1113-15) For such men are false apostles,
deceitful workers, disguising themselves as
apostles of Christ. No wonder, for even Satan
disguises himself as an angel of light.
Therefore it is not surprising if his servants
also disguise themselves as servants of
righteousness, whose end will be according to
their deeds.
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(Review) A Humanists View Of Religion

• God is dead (does not exist).
• But the masses of people are not ready to give up
  religion.
• So, let them have their religion, but take God
  out of the picture.
• Turn all emphasis to life on this earth, because
  that is all there is.

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Fun, hot music, no dress code, relevant teaching
a service that will grab your attention and
speak to your soul.
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Fun
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• 2Ti 41-4 I solemnly charge you in the presence
  of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the
  living and the dead, and by His appearing and His
  kingdom preach the word be ready in season and
  out of season reprove, rebuke, exhort, with
  great patience and instruction. For the time
  will come when they will not endure sound
  doctrine but wanting to have their ears tickled,
  they will accumulate for themselves teachers in
  accordance to their own desires, and will turn
  away their ears from the truth and will turn
  aside to myths.

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• 2Ti 41-4 I solemnly charge you in the presence
  of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the
  living and the dead, and by His appearing and His
  kingdom preach the word be ready in season and
  out of season reprove, rebuke, exhort, with
  great patience and instruction. For the time
  will come when they will not endure sound
  doctrine but wanting to have their ears tickled,
  they will accumulate for themselves teachers in
  accordance to their own desires, and will turn
  away their ears from the truth and will turn
  aside to myths.

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Hot Music
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• Rom 159 and for the Gentiles to glorify God for
  His mercy as it is written, "THEREFORE I WILL
  GIVE PRAISE TO YOU AMONG THE GENTILES, AND I WILL
  SING TO YOUR NAME."
• 1Co 1415 What is the outcome then? I will pray
  with the spirit and I will pray with the mind
  also I will sing with the spirit and I will sing
  with the mind also.
• Heb 212 saying, "I WILL PROCLAIM YOUR NAME TO
  MY BRETHREN, IN THE MIDST OF THE CONGREGATION I
  WILL SING YOUR PRAISE."

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• James 513 Is anyone among you suffering? Then
  he must pray. Is anyone cheerful? He is to sing
  praises.
• Col 316 Let the word of Christ richly dwell
  within you, with all wisdom teaching and
  admonishing one another with psalms and hymns and
  spiritual songs, singing with thankfulness in
  your hearts to God.
• Eph 519 speaking to one another in psalms and
  hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making
  melody with your heart to the Lord

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No Dress Code
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1Ch 1629 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His
name Bring an offering, and come before Him
Worship the LORD in holy array.
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Relevant Teaching
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Feeding The 5,000

• The Bible tells the story to give proof that
  Jesus was (and is) the Divine Son of God.
• The Humanist says that your child will not like
  the story if you tell it that way. You must make
  it relevant. Tell of sharing INSTEAD.
• Therefore we abandon the divine lesson of the
  deity of Jesus and teach sharing. After all,
  thats what the experts say to do.

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The Story of Noah

• He built a boat to escape a flood he saved two
  of all kinds of animals on board the ark.
• We spend the rest of the period having a
  pictorial zoo.
• The children have fun like the story of Noah.
  Not because they learned about a great man of
  faith, but because they could play with all the
  animals.
• The Humanist says the story of Noah is not
  relevant because it happened so long ago.

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Is It Not Relevant To Learn

• That Noah was a man who listened to Gods
  instructions and obeyed them even when they did
  not seem to make sense? (A man of faith)
• That Noah continued to work even though he could
  not convince his neighbors that his warnings of
  impending doom were true (1 Pet 319f)?
• That God would not have been pleased with him if
  he had not built the ark exactly according to
  Gods plan?

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Peter Used The Story Of Noah

• To teach the relevant story that God will come
  in judgment against the wicked that God keeps
  His promises (2 Pet 32f)
• To show that God can punish the wicked and save
  the righteous at the same time never get
  confused over which is which (2 Pet 24f)
• If we teach these lessons, then we know that we
  are teaching lessons that the Holy Spirit
  thought were important because those are the
  lessons that are revealed !

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But The Humanist Doesnt Believe

• God really sent a flood.
• God will really come again in a final judgment.
• So they say
• Children will not like the story unless we look
  at all the animals. (We see their pretty
  pictures of the Ark and we fall into Satans
  trap!)

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The Story Of Balaam

• (Nu 22-24) Instead of teaching about a man who
  tried to get around Gods will after knowing
  what God wanted
• We teach that Balaam was sorry that he
  mistreated his donkey.
• The lesson is that we should treat our pets
  kindly. The take-home sheet is a drawing of a
  child feeding a kitten !
• Balaams story is a powerful lesson about a man
  in rebellion against God !

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Our Modern Children, Who Are Growing Up
Resenting Authority, Desperately Need

• To hear Gods intended message regarding Balaam.
• The lesson When God Speaks, You Obey, Even When
  You Dont Like Or Understand Gods Directives.

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(Judges 210) and there arose another
generation after them who did not know the LORD,
nor yet the work which He had done for Israel.
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World Headquarters of Secular Humanism (???)
- Satan -

• (Eph 612) For our struggle is not against
  flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against
  the powers, against the world forces of this
  darkness, against the spiritual forces of
  wickedness in the heavenly places.

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• (2Co 1113-15) For such men are false apostles,
  deceitful workers, disguising themselves as
  apostles of Christ. No wonder, for even Satan
  disguises himself as an angel of light. Therefore
  it is not surprising if his servants also
  disguise themselves as servants of righteousness,
  whose end will be according to their deeds.

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Fun Hot Music No Dress Code Relevant Teaching
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What to do?
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