The Sunday Musician

Fred McKinnon had a post a couple of days ago about famous worship leaders being like rock stars. Good discussion over there, and you should check it out. After browsing through the post and it’s comments, I got to thinking—maybe the whole problem lies in the definition of worship. Ask any church leader—any church leader—what the definition of worship is, and you’ll get some variation of this answer:

“Worship is not just something we do on Sunday, but an entire way of life. Worship can be found in any act; the carpenter is worshipping when he builds a well-built house, the truck driver as he hauls his load. It’s not just songs on Sunday morning.”

Except…we behave as if exactly the opposite were true. No matter all the high-sounding language about the nature of worship, we really measure it something like this:

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