Worship, Holy Spirit Led or Humanisticly Concocted

Worship, Holy Spirit Led or Humanisticly Concocted

In recent years, the past 40, there has been a concept that has taken over nearly every church gathering, that is not only not Biblical but fosters showmanship.

The concept I speak of is "worship leader", in churches where several people get up on stage, with their instruments in "stage production" fashion to "lead the people in worship."

God expressly taught in His Word that the Holy Spirit leads worship. In this world of make believe, many who are playing church have invented tactics to manipulate the emotions of the people.

The apostate church, because it lacks faith and true worship, has to control the masses while elevating popular people in the gathering.

Nearly everything being done in church gatherings today, especially the mega-church situations, is for the purpose of controlling the people to appear spiritual, when in fact, they are not only less spiritual but grievous pretenders. This is nothing more than theatrics to entertain the masses.

Playing church, is not at all what God had in mind for the worship of His people.

John 4:24 ""God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

We see no mandate in Scripture to place anyone on a stage to help others worship. All worship is led by the Holy Spirit.

There is no substitute for the Holy Spirit when a soul is submitted to Christ. No other person can help another person worship, they can only manipulate feelings.

An outward display of feelings is not the measure of the true worship of a man.

As we have seen many times, whole congregations can scream, cry, jump up and down in ecstatic excitement, while having on leanings at all toward God. The pagan religions do it all the time.

John 7:37-39 "From the innermost being"

"37 Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From [c]his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified."

Acts 11:16-17

"16 And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’ 17 Therefore if God gave to them the same gift as He gave to us also after believing in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?”

Romans 5:5

"5 and hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us."

Zechariah 4:6

"6 Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ says the Lord of hosts."

I have attended churches that have "worship teams", as soon as I see this, I do not stay, because a congregation that would accept a substitute for the Holy Spirit to lead them in worship, are probably substituting many other man made concepts to guide their people.

We might be shocked to find out, when we pass into glory, that there was far more foolishness accepted in the gatherings than we thought. Nearly all of us have been indoctrinated into unBiblical practices in our churches, so much so that they no longer look like the first century church. I am quite sure that gathering did not call their worship "services."

Perhaps if we evaluated everything in light of the Bible guided by the Holy Spirit, we would not be so quickly manipulated by the modern form of worship.