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Introduction
Have you ever said something with good intentions but it didn’t come out right?
That’s me three or more times a day.
This happens all the time during church services.
Misquoted as, “psalms, hymns and spiritual thongs” while officiating one of my best friend’s wedding.
Here are 13 examples from real worship leaders over the years during a song or a prayer.
They called it #worshipheresy
“To the God of treachery, all glory be, to the One who gave it all...”
I sang, “He cr*ps himself with light” during How Great is Our God.
Mixed “wraps” and “crowns.”
#worshipheresy
I sang, “I see a generation rising up to take their place with selfish faith.”
“The weight of all of Your shame, released when You came and gave up my life.”
#worshipheresy
“Jesus, we thank You that the tomb is not empty.”
“Father, we thank You for rising from the dead.”
“Not because of what You’ve done, but because of who I am.”
“I thy great father and thou my true son,” during Be Thou My Vision.
#worshipheresy
“I’d rather have silver than Jesus or gold.”
#worshipheresy
I don’t think it counts, but I when sang “Never Let Go” by Matt Redman, I missed an entire verse and chorus by sneezing.
I picked soft music for a corporate prayer time that I later found out was the theme to “The Exorcist.”
“Jesus lay prostate on the ground.”
#worshipheresy
“You are wonderful.
And you’re never to be trusted.”
During Give Us Clean Hands I sang, “We turn our eyes TO evil things.”
During Give Us Clean Hands I sang, “We turn our eyes TO evil things.”
#worshipheresy
“He is jealous for me, floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.”
I once asked a congregation to “Stand and worship us,” rather than “Stand and worship with us.”
Heard during an offering prayer, “Lord, we thank you that Jesus set a wonderful example for us while being a great American.”“God,
you always change!” #worshipheresy
“Lord, align Your will with ours.”
#worshipheresy
“Ashamed, I hear HIS mocking voice call out among the scoffers!”
Sang that one loud and proud.
#worshipheresy
Heard during an offering prayer, “Lord, we thank you that Jesus set a wonderful example for us while being a great American.”
“God, you always change!” #worshipheresy
Once heard a pastor say, “Please rise for the hymn of indecision.”
#worshipheresy
I was trying to prime our church for the pre-chorus of God of This City and I emphatically yelled, “There is no God!” #ranouttatime
“Thou on my head in early youth didst smite”...actual lyric is “thou on my head in early youth didst smile.”
I once prayed for God to give a guy “aides.”
When you say that word out loud, no one pays attention to the letter E.
“Lead us into temptation and deliver us in evil...” Speed praying should’ve never happened.
#worshipheresy
“Marvelous sins of our loving Lord…”
“Sex is better, money is better than You, Jesus.”
I prayed, “We’re just trying to repay You for what You’ve done.”
Just caught myself singing “banana in the highest” to myself in the shower.
Not quite right.
Must be hungry this morning.
#worshipheresy
Once heard a pastor say, “Please rise for the hymn of indecision.”
#worshipheresy
“In every high and stormy gale, my anchor old within the whale.”
#worshipheresy
“In every high and stormy gale, my anchor old within the whale.”
#worshipheresy
“God, that you would decrease so that I may increase...” Yep...prayed that during worship once.
What is a heretic?
Heretic - A person holding an opinion at odds with what is generally accepted.
Heretic - A person holding an opinion at odds with what is generally accepted.
(Proclaiming a lie as truth)
There is a difference between committing heresy without meaning it and doing it on purpose.
In the time of John’s writing, the Jewish Christians of the day had been labeled as heretics.
Their views on Jesus being the messiah had caused them to be labeled as people who were proclaiming a lie against God.
John wrote to encourage these believers in light of their developments.
Instead of being heretics, they were actually preserving the truth of old.
Jesus had been with God since before the world was formed.
He entered their history and was tangible evidence of God’s love to people.
Their belief in Him provided fellowship and joy with God the Father.
John continues his proclamation in verse 5.
John was preaching a message that he had heard from Jesus.
He did not make up this idea on his own.
He’s not necessarily quoting any specific saying of Jesus, but rather summarizing the teaching of Jesus.
Message - promise
announce - declare with authority
There is no more comprehensive statement about the essential being of God than “God is light.”
This is a statement of the absolute nature of God.
He is light in His very nature.
This is not a metaphor.
Light is immaterial, diffusive, pure, and glorious.
Physically it represents glory, intellectually is truth, and morally it is holiness.
Light was the first manifestation of God in creation.
While is true to say that God is “the high and lofty One … he who lives for ever, whose name is holy”, he desires to be known by all and has revealed Himself.
There is no secrecy, no hiding in the shadows, or anything like that with God.
No one can claim a relationship with Him without coming to full knowledge of truth itself.
The people standing against the Jewish Christians believed that their morality of sin was acceptable and fine according to their human made philosophy of life.
If God is also light in the sense of possessing an absolute moral perfection, their claim to know him despite their indifference to morality is seen to be nonsense.
Putting yourself in the light of the Lord according to His word gives you the ability to distinguish truth from lies (heresy).
In other words, you need to realize that the words said against Christianity are actually a boomerang.
Every arrow shot in your direction is not meant in opposition to you as much as it is in opposition to God.
They don’t hate you.
They hate the God that you serve and His son who saved you.
John points out three religious heresies
John points out three heresies in the following verses that the church had to fight through.
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