{"id":4537,"date":"2013-05-08T14:13:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T18:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/church\/?p=4537"},"modified":"2014-07-21T10:08:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T14:08:21","slug":"worship-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/church\/worship-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Worship Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Nr-6NOI7Ps?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever been sitting in a worship service and thought back to your previous week?\u00a0 Suddenly your heart sinks because the words that are coming out of your mouth do not line up with your actions or attitudes.\u00a0 Instead of singing \u201cI Surrender ALL\u201d you feel like you should be singing, \u201cI Surrender SOME\u201d or maybe some of the other worship songs in the above video.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where is the truth in your worship?<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In John 4 Jesus interacted with a woman who lived a life of failed worship.\u00a0 Jews looked down on this Samaritan not only because of her ethnicity but also because she was a promiscuous woman.\u00a0 Jesus tells her (in John 4: 23-24) that the Father seeks people who worship in Spirit and Truth to be His worshippers.<\/p>\n<p>In this story there is a great amount of cultural tension present.\u00a0 The fact that Jesus was speaking to a woman was scandalous for their culture.\u00a0 Also, the fact that Jesus, a Jew, was speaking to a Samaritan was scandalous because of the racial tensions between the Jews and the Samaritans.\u00a0 To make things even more scandalous, this woman was sexually promiscuous, having had multiple husbands.\u00a0 This woman was a failed worshipper. \u00a0Jesus could have done two things. \u00a0He could have preached condemnation on this woman and quickly removed any hope of her being redeemed. \u00a0Another reaction Jesus could have had was to run far, far away from this woman\u2026but He didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This woman at the well may have begun her day with a worship fail, but she ended it on the right note.\u00a0<\/strong> She believed that Jesus was the Messiah and proclaimed this truth to all who would hear (John 4:39).\u00a0 Her repentance was evident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jesus loved this failure of a woman and spoke words of life to her. These same words of life are offered to you and me.\u00a0<\/strong> When we fail at worshipping God, throughout our week, God is right there offering us forgiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday morning is a great morning to begin worshipping.\u00a0 One element of your worship service on Sunday (whether individually or corporately) should be a time of repentance.\u00a0 <strong>Repentance is an integral part of worship.\u00a0 It is how we can prepare our hearts to worship God in Spirit and truth.\u00a0 It is how we turn a worship fail into a worship win.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever been sitting in a worship service and thought back to your previous week?\u00a0 Suddenly your heart sinks because the words that are coming out of your mouth do not line up with your actions or attitudes.\u00a0 Instead of singing \u201cI Surrender ALL\u201d you feel like you should be singing, \u201cI Surrender SOME\u201d&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.faithlafayette.org\/church\/worship-fail\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11787,11791,11790,11786,4226,11789,4250,11788],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - 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