The wise men showed us how to regard Jesus with reverence and respect.

Live it
I spoke with an old friend last night whose life parallels mine in many ways. We are the same age, attended the same high school, both enjoyed leading worship music in several churches through the years. We attended the same church as teenagers, even worked together for a short while. You'd expect us to have similar desires and tendencies I suppose, but we laughed last evening as we compared ourselves to Felix and Oscar on the "Odd Couple", an vintage television program from the past. We're different in more ways than similar but we share one thing in common.

Danny and I grew up like many of you who are over fifty years of age, in a church where the worship service was far more respectful of God's holiness than today. In the old days, silence was a display of reverence for God and personal conduct in church reflective of what being in his presence should be like. It's next to impossible to find such as attitude in church today, but it's even harder to find music that satisfies everyone's taste. Danny recently stopped leading worship because of the conflict and confusion caused by trying to blend both traditional and contemporary music in worship. Most churches today have addressed this problem by separating worship services where the two are not blended and members can select a worship to suit their musical preference. Is it just me or does this solution seem to reflect how the world would solve the "problem," rather than the way God would?

Pray it
I'm not sure when worship changed to performance, but sadly for most believers that's the case in church. I'm so blessed to attend a good church that knows how to worship, but I would be untruthful to say we always face issues the way You'd like. The way we're going, I fear the next generation won't even regard what the Bible says about the subject. Teach us to worship in a way that reflects more of heaven than a Warner Brothers' production.

Resources
Need Christians - only slaves need apply. (2000)
Some strangers you will encounter today may be angels. (2001)
How can you say you read it unless you've donr so from cover to cover? (2003)
Intercessors need more prayer than anyone. (2004)
Prayertower is finished? (2005)
Devotional (2006)
Undeserved mercy is the simplest prayer, yet we have to move beyond it and begin serving. (2007)
God is everywhere, all the time. (2008)

1. One-minute Devotionals began on January 2, 2006 and are the original creation of James R. Green, Prayertower Webservant Content is derived from his alternating and sequential survey of both the Old and New Testament to offer insight on Scripture.
2. Resources are derived from daily devotions of James R. Green called, Just Thinkin'... (2000-2003), Read the Bible Thru in 365 Days (2004), Pray Thru the Word in 365 Days (2005) and One Minute Devotional (2006-2008).
3. Scripture: God's Word Translation (c)1995 by God's Word to the Nations. All Rights Reserved.

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