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Worship Wars : Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors

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No video for this sermon yet... hope that you enjoy the blog! Hello and welcome back to yet another week here on Making Waves. We are so glad that you have taken the time to join us here today. For those of you that this is your first time with us, or your first time in a while, we are currently on the fourth and final week of our sermon series on worship: Worship Wars. I would highly encourage you to check out the first three parts of the series, but will include a brief synopsis and recap of the past three weeks below. We started this series together with the acknowledgment that there is (and has been) an active war going on in the church over worship. This is certainly nothing new and has manifested itself in a plethora of different masks over the generations of worship dating back to the dawn of Christianity. Most recently, however, we can note it most vividly in the brutal division formed in the church by the traditionalist versus the contemporary movement. While the ene...

Worship Wars : Something in the Water

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If you’d like to watch the video version of this sermon, feel free to click here . Hello and welcome back to another week here on Making Waves! I’m thrilled that you’ve chosen to join us here today. For those of you who are visiting this page for the first time, please be aware that this is part 3 of a sermon series called “Worship Wars.” It may be worth your time to go back and watch/read the previous two sermons before carrying on with this one. However, if you should choose to press onward, I will briefly recap the past two weeks below. Regardless of religious persuasion or upbringing, surely anyone can see and acknowledge that we are (and have been for quite some time) in a worship war in our Christian culture. The division between this postmodern contemporary branch of worship and the deep-rooted traditionalist worship is apparent. Words will be thrown, walls will be built, and the message will suffer at the sake of our opinions on the true means of worship. Acknowle...