how much is it worth to you?

So I listen to a lot of music, especially live shows. Something that is always so amazing about going to a show or even listening to a recording of one is how people get so excited and aren’t afraid to show it.
Why is that so lacking when we come to church. I go to a pretty modern (I mean a pretty post-modern) church; it has all the hip music the kids are listening to these days, the nice mood lighting, it even does crazy stuff like have canvas and paint to draw on sometimes. This is all done they say to create an atmosphere where you can feel comfortable and be able to relate with and also be able to express worship in many different and expressive ways. But that seems to be the problem, people don’t express it; I would almost be so bold as to say they don’t have anything to express, but I won’t say that as in giving them the benefit of the doubt.

So what’s the problem, because this goes way beyond any style of music or whatever. Christians get more excited talking about the new little gadget they got (that’s supposed to revolutionize their life, stream lining everything…even though they spent all weekend getting it work correctly) or the ‘great’ game they saw yesterday (see previous post). I get so frustrated seeing the world or even Christians doing a better job worshipping things of the world more than us Christians do at worshipping God. *Not to get off into Piper theology or anything but it’s pretty clear that God deserves our praise way more than any other thing. I’m not saying things are bad and we shouldn’t enjoy them; what I’m saying is we are missing the train in our worship. We have kicked God off the top, and but all kinds of other things in it’s place.

I wish I had some great answer to what I should do for this problem, because I definitely feel like I’m in this boat and the boat is definitely sinking. I just know that I’m sick and I see a lot of other people, to be a lumper I would say the whole America Christian church (as I don’t know enough close hand experience with the foreign branches of the body, though from what I hear it’s doing far better than American churches.). I pray that God would make us really feel the pain so that we could realize how grave a problem we are lying in, so we may come together and resolve this problem and return to the true undivided worship of our Lord.