Some of us, and I'm more guilty than most, get all hung up on the style of worship, instead of being caught up in a lifestyle of worship. Great music and awesome preaching is what happens during worship. However, if we ONLY allow ourselves to enter into worship when led by a certain style of music or by a certain type of preaching then who or what are we worshipping?
Worship is our time with God and our time in His presence. The object of worship is not the music or the speaker or a building. Worship is our full attention and devotion, surrender and adoration to The One to whom we are singing to and speaking about! Some of my most powerful worship experiences have come in the quietness of the morning while in my praying place (oddly enough, for me it's in my shower), where prayer is uninterrupted, easy, natural and the rinsing or pouring of water is spiritually and physically cleansing for me...and there is no music even playing.
Our task in worship is to prepare ourselves spiritually to hear the Spirit speak, sometimes despite the music and preaching.
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:21-24 NKJV)
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