Dead Worship

~ Flashback:  Midnight Special.. so great.. live performances.. so much greater than the staged videos of later music shows like MTV and VH1.. had a more intimate feel with the artists than the mass produced music industry that followed... all the digital this and that... technology has really smothered something in music..

~ same thing with worship music... we've lost an intimacy with all the staged and technological super shows.. Satan was over music.. it was a sensual, intimate thing that reached into the very being of ppl.. a spiritual/religious experience.. originally sposed to be with the same God that created the sexual experience between a husband and wifey.. "then it all went wrong"

~ not that it has to be accoustically driven.. but the scripted, staged, hype-man/woman is kinda nauseating.. and it has become the norm... everyone talks of being undignified like David.. but few go there on a personal level.. and worship leaders will never take us there until they go alone, whether anyone goes with them or not... those are the leaders that release that authentic aroma of worship of our God.. when they go to those intimate places of worship unafraid of who or what system they offend...

~ Everyone makes it about the issue that David danced naked.. like his nakedness was the hinge and focus of that moment of authentic worship.. or that he told his wife off with an arrogant rant about being undignified.. that wasn't it at all. It was David expressing something that had eaten him up inside and spilled over into his physical man, uncontrollable, offensive, uncaring of anything or anyone except the God that overwhelmed his heart and very being. It was an act of desperation, and a cry of exhiliaration, in that one moment when everything in him threw off all weights and stumbling blocks that stood in the way of complete intimacy with his God...

~ For David that was an unrestrained dance that led to an honest and truthful wardrobe malfunction.. he unintentionally shed his clothes in the middle of a church/worship ceremony... for you and me, it will look very differently.. it will be personal, it will be just as offensive to onlookers in the church and outside the church, but it will take us to a place where we experience God in a way that we have never imagined. Just as sex is such a personal experience.. so is worship.. only it is your spirit that reaches that place of zoe.. for God is a Spirit.