Have you ever felt uncomfortable witnessing how someone else worships?

Maybe it's a different religion, a different Christian denomination, or maybe it's someone in your very own congregation - but I'd be willing to bet that all of us have witnessed a method of worship that makes us uncomfortable.

But does this make it wrong?

In this episode, we do a survey of humanity's problem with worship from Cain to Israel, to David, to us.

The reality is, ALL of us, in one way or another, have probably been guilty of some of the sins related to worship that the rest of humanity has fallen to.

Across time, cultures, and methods, humanity has made the mistake of choosing for themselves how they would like to worship God. Sometimes we see people worshipping the wrong god (or gods) in ways that should be reserved for the true God. Sometimes we see people worshipping the right God in all the wrong ways. Sometimes we get uncomfortable when we perceive the "wrong people" to be worshipping the right God.

However, aside from adding elements to worship that actively displease God or ignoring certain things He has asked of us - MANY of us can be guilty of choosing for ourselves how we would like to worship God in our condemnation of other people's perfectly acceptable forms of worship.

You may not enjoy contemporary Christian music and find movement and passion to be awkward - but does that make it unbiblical?

Maybe you find hymns outdated and ritualistically performative - but does that mean God does not enjoy hymns?

We must be careful not to offer things to God that He has explicitly asked us NOT to offer up. But we must also be careful not to condemn others who are offering forms of worship that God desires just because it may make us uncomfortable.

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