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We’re kicking off our summer series Be The Church.
Last summer you’ll recall our theme.
What was it - can anyone tell me?
Can we all say it together?
This summer it’s Be The Church.
Say that with me.
Louder.
Why Be The Church?
Well, quite simply, we’re called not to just be Christians by going to church.
We’re called to live as Christians during the week.
Hence Being the Church.
There is a certain way we are called, according to Scripture, to behave and live a certain way we’re called to live.
These practices we as a church have summarized into four simole words.
These practices are on our permanent logo on our sign and our website and all our publications.
And that logo is on your screen now.
These practices are on our summer theme logo that’s on the screen now.
These practices are going to be the focus of our summer series.
We will cycle through all four of these over the next couple of months.
Today?
Worship: Head, Heart, Hands.
Each of these three elements of worship, head, heart, hands, is represented today by a character.
The characters are mine.
The images come to you courtesy of Noah Michael Mace of 603 E. Church St. Cherryville.
Each of these characters has a strength and a weakness.
Notice with me these three characters, will you?
Mr. Head: The Thinker
Everyone, I give you Mr. Head.
What is Mr. Head like?
Well, Mr. Head is all head.
That’s all he has - no heart, no hands.
Just a head.
Now don’t let his smile fool you.
He looks happy.
But he’s not.
He wishes he weren’t just a man with a head.
But that’s not the hand he’s been dealt.
So here he is - just a guy with a head.
Mr. Head.
Now as a man with just a head, he has a mind, but that’s it.
He can think.
He can reason.
He can critique.
But he can’t feel emotion.
And he can’t get to work serving.
And that means that at church, all he can do is think about how bad or how good the sermon was.
There weren’t enough illustrations.
There were too many illustrations.
The pastor used too much humor.
He didn’t use enough humor.
It was too theological.
It wasn’t theological enough.
He also can’t be active.
He can’t operate the bulldozer.
He can’t help put the sign down in the concrete.
He can watch; he can critique; he can complain.
But he can’t do much more.
This man is an armchair churchmember...Actually he’s an armchair everything, because he doesn’t have a head.
But when it comes to worship, it’s not much better for this poor guy, and here’s where I’m really going with this.
His problem is that he can’t do much other than critique the music - it wasn’t fast enough, it wasn’t slow enough, the song is too old, the song is too new.
The song is appealing to visitors.
The song appeals only to visitors.
The key was too high.
The key was too low.
The choir shoud have sung along with it.
The choir shouldn’t have sung along with it.
You get my drift here?
Point is, Mr. Head doesn’t feel much when he worships God with his church.
Mr. Head is too busy making sure everyone else is worshiping correctly; he can’t himself worship.
There was a man once who walked up to the pastor after the service and said, “Preacher, I didn’t like a single one of the hymns we sung this morning.”
The pastor smiled cheerfully, patted the man on the back, and said, “That’s okay – we weren’t singing them for you!” [Morgan, p472]
That’s Mr. Head.
Consider yourselves introduced.
Mr. Heart: The Feeler
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mr. Heart.
Mr. Heart..... Technically, as you can see, he’s really just a torso.
But that is the part of the body where his heart would be.
So this is Mr. Heart.
Now remember Mr. Head?
Mr. Head was all thinking.
Mr. Heart is all feeling.
Mr. Heart is easily moved.
He’s emotionally self-aware.
He’s emotionally-expressive.
He doesn’t mind feeling things while he worships.
Mr. Heart doesn’t really care about the lyrics of the worship music.
He’s not concerned about whether they’re biblically correct or theologically deep.
He likes a song not because of what it says but because of how it sounds and how it makes him feel.
Problem is, Mr. Heart’s lack of attention to intellect carries a consequence.
It tends to make him less discerning.
He’s more prone to fall into theological error.
He’s more prone to go after false teaching.
And in worship, he’s more concerned about how a song makes him feel.
But lyrics matter much more than the music that accompanies it.
Mr. Heart forgets that.
Now every church has people who are like Mr. Heart.
They’re feelers.
They remind people like Mr. Head that it can’t be all intellect.
God gave us emotions and He wants us to feel deeply when we worship and experience deeply when we worship.
So don’t roll your when Mr. Heart speaks up.
Don’t be surprised when he acts like Mr. Heart.
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