10 Mistakes Worship Leaders Make - Mistake #4 - Worship in a Box

Mistake # 4 – Worship in a box

Oral cultures make no distinction or compartmentalization of human approaches to God. It’s integrated; it’s all worship. But, with the print era, we developed categories of the service. Today, what we call “worship” is assigned other purposes and tasks. For example, it is designed to “bring them in,” to fulfill an evangelism function, etc.

I operate in a business world and in a church world. I attend meetings in both. And, you know what? There’s no difference. The meetings in both arenas are about the same thing; how do we sell the product? How do we increase market share?

So, we’ve “packaged” the whole communal and worship experience. And, that perpetuates a consumerist church and militates against spontaneity and mystery.