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Catalyst - Louie Giglio

October 8th, 2005 · 2 Comments · 8 views

I first met Louie Giglio as a freshman in college.  He was at Baylor starting this ‘renegade’ movement that used electric guitars and was borderline charismatic.  It was called Passion.  

My biggest fear is that we have complicated worship instead of making it simpler.

Worship is placing our life in His hands for His plans.  A great big response.  That’s it.  It’s not classical, traditional, neo-orthodoxy, emergent, contemporary, or post-modern.  

Have we become consumer worshippers as opposed to consumed/consume worshippers?  Our purpose is to be poured out like a drink offering…to be consumed – not preserved and not look for the next big hit or emotional worship experience.

Do we really need another worship event?  We need individual ‘worshippers’ who will be consumed by God.  Who will place their life in the hands of God and with reckless abandon allow God to work his plan in them, through them, and out of them.

Tags: leadership · theological ramblings

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  • 1 Wayne // Oct 8, 2005 at 4:01 pm

    Wow, bro — sitting in the Little Rock airport, just read this post. I don’t think I could agree more. Not only have we become consumer worshippers, there is a whole industry that surrounds us to feed off our need for a worshipful experience. There are many “worship leaders” who I think are really nothing more than entertainers…but an industry like this doesn’t exist, unless there are consumers for it.

    I know 2 Timothy 4 speaks to people not adhereing to sound doctrine/teaching and wanting only to have their ears tickled…but could this issue of consumer worship be either a symptom or a catalyst of that?

  • 2 Anonymous // Oct 21, 2005 at 8:37 am

    Worship events may be the first place that some people experience the freedom to worship like they have wanted to for years in church. I wouldn’t knock ‘em. Yeah, there are worship leaders who are more into the music than they are into God and I hate that. Some of them are the old timey organ playing people and some are the rock it out the window kind. But I don’t think that the leaders at “worship events” fall into that catagory - usually. I’m thinking of Matt Redman and Chris Tomlin - total God worshippers. I think that every young (in age) Christian should have the opportunity to know what it is like to be surrounded by other worshippers - a small taste of heaven that lingers in the mouth…

    Roop

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