Worship is an essential part of every church, but is a very disputed topic. Although every Christian should agree that worship is important, everyone has his or her own opinion about what worship should be like. There are many aspects of worship including: prayer, tithe, offering, communion, singing, etc. All forms of worship are equally important, but the music and signing seems to be the one that attracts the most controversy. Since there are many different genres or preferences of music, there are bound to be arguments over with kind of music is best for church. Although this happens a lot, it should not. Style or genre should not matter. As long as you are glorifying the Lord in what you are singing, then style should not matter. There are two major things about the music in church that do bother me and tend to stand out. The first is that I think that many worship songs are too self-centered. There are many that tend to focus on us and talk about us and do not focus on praising God. I think if the word “I” is used too often, even if it is not meant to, the song is focused more on the person singing than it is on God. Another thing we need to keep in mind is that the worship songs are not there for our entertainment. We must remember that we are not at some concert. I know people make comments; I do at times, about a singer or a group not sounding very good. I need to remember they are not singing to entertain or please me. They should be singing to worship God and please him. I think it is very easy to make worship self-centered because people have such strong opinions about music that they like or do not like. This also is true with speakers. If a speaker is preaching the word of God, just because it did not entertain you necessarily or keep your attention the whole time does not mean it was a bad message. God could have used that speaker’s words to touch someone else’s heart, even if it did not resound with you.
