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Worship Mythbusters 5.0: Expressiveness in worship verses legalism

WMB 5.0 – How does expressiveness fight against legalism in our liturgy is where I am going today in this WMB post.  This is part of a series here

MYTH:  Loud, expressive, extravagant, joyful worship is not as holy as quiet, still and austere worship.

Of course the goal is not to enjoy your expression of worship, or to reach a certain decibel level.  The goal is to offer our lives, and in the context of liturgy, our communal life as a church.  What happens in a church is a person who has some tattoos walks in, and begins “feeling” it while some of the staid-suburban-Dockers-wearing-Christian-veterans in the pews begin to feel something else–resentment.

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