Last sunday i had this brief word for our group: That expressions of worship need not be limited if one is not a singer. Why not just speak out the words from your heart, of worship to your LORD? Jesus doesn’t care if you can’t sing. It’s what comes from our heart that matters.
There is no limitation. But why do people restrict themselves to certain forms, and to looking up songs in chorus books? (not that there’s anything wrong with that) Why isn’t there a spontaneous river of life flowing?
Ian Vincent 
July 29, 2010 at 7:49 am
Worship in the Book of Revelation is Liturgical. Holy Holy Holy, etc.
Spontaneity without order is mere mental anarchy. Look at the Psalms and the Prophets. Inspired yes; carefully crafted as well. Poetic devices, chiasms etc. Inspiration is not opposed to order.
July 29, 2010 at 8:40 am
OK, you stand there going, Holy Holy Holy…. all day, that’s fine. Let us know when you’re done!
I was referring to exactly the same kind of worship as poured out of King David spontaneously.
What spontaneously pours out of me is the Word of God.
So, your assumption that spontaneity means disorder and anarchy, is all in your mind.
Whatsoever is the fruit of the Holy Spirit can only be divine order.
July 29, 2010 at 10:09 am
I’m sitting in the living room. I look out the window and see my wife is coming to the door. I frantically reach for the bookshelf to find a book which i can read to her which expresses how much i love and appreciate her. But alas, someone borrowed that book and didn’t return it. What shall i do? I’m on the spot now! What shall i say to her without a book to read from!!
Liturgical ‘worship’ is a system devised by man so that dead Christians can appear to have life. **
(like getting a dead corpse and animating it with wires so that it appears to be alive) It’s about keeping up appearances and an outward form of godliness. It’s about propagating and maintaining a religious culture. It works well. Such religious cultures are passed down thru the generations, and they form people’s identity. The apostate system couldn’t exist without such a prop ( even modern charismatics couldn’t function without their liturgy).
No need even to be born-again, just follow along mumbling the words! and give your offering, and everyone’s happy.
Whereas, God designed His Church to function in a way that it is impossible for non-Spirit-filled Christians to “do it”. He made it so that we would be totally dependent on Him. But with forms, you don’t even need to be born-again for it to function quite well.
Compare ‘liturgy’ with this:
If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that you are mad?
But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believes not, or one unlearned, he is convicted of all, he is judged of all: And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
How is it then, brethren? when you come together, every one of you has a psalm, has a doctrine, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that in turn; and let one interpret. But if there be no interpreter, let him keep silence in the church; and let him speak to himself, and to God.
Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the others judge. If anything be revealed to another that sits by, let the first hold his peace. For you may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
(1Co 14:23-33)
** Liturgy is an attempt to practice or recreate the Old Testament temple order of service. How could a person filled with the Holy Spirit ever think of wanting to return to the days before the New Covenant and before the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all flesh? Impossible. It’s only possible that a spiritually dead ‘christian’ would want to reject the Holy Spirit and go back to the Old Testament temple service.