Monday's Meditation: Indigenous Worship (dot com)
Monday, October 4, 2010 at 08:57AM Today’s meditation is simple: it’s good to help your friends, and my friends have developed a new website!
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| Worship springing forth from local soil. |
Indigenousworship.com launches today--a website dedicated to encouraging songwriting in the local church. Why not check it out each day this week as John Mark McMillan discusses songwriting and worship?
One of the downsides to our mass media-drive age is a dreary sameness in cultural expressions--movies, music, and books all begin to merge into one pale hue. But the Kingdom of God should blossom forth into a million blooms, each flower distinctive to the soil that supports it: that’s indigenous worship.
From nation to nation, region to region, even city to city--God should be praised in the idiom of the local people. The book of Revelation celebrates people of every nation, tribe, and tongue--wouldn’t it be a shame if our locality had no songs to bring?
Reader Comments (4)
thanks for the love!
local-grown-rock-n-roll-forever
adam
www.indigenousworship.com
I completely agree about mass culture vs. local life. To borrow from Eric Hoffer, because so many have no local business worth minding, we tap into mass culture and mind everyone else's business.
I also agree that the Kingdom should produce millions of blooms boiling out of local soil. Yes.
I'm so glad to see this. I sometimes despair over the quality of our worship songs sometimes, so I'm glad to see a thoughtful approach to worship. Thanks for the heads up!
I'm so glad to see this. I sometimes despair over the quality of our worship songs sometimes, so I'm glad to see a thoughtful approach to worship. Thanks for the heads up!