Worship on Sunday spilled over into clapping and total joy as the music honored our teenagers returning from the Appalachian Service Project where they had helped to repair homes. Usually much more formal, this past Sunday's music consisted of three guitars and a fiddle (violin in reality) playing Appalachion hymns. Rythmical and fun, the congregation as a whole really got into it with the musicians, but the person sitting next to me did not approve at ALL. He said he was raised in the Dutch Reformed tradition where clapping was not permitted. My answer was that I was raised a Lutheran in the most somber of ambiances and clapping supposedly turned worship into performance art and therefore was sinful. I realized that I had gotten over that attitude at last and completely entered the spirit of the worship. It truly WAS worship.
God is love. God is joy.
1 comments:
I admit I was a little uncomfortable with the applause during worship-I loved the foot stomping, soul swinging music, and enjoyed getting everyone involved together in joyful worship, but the applause? That makes me cringe a little-who are we applauding? The musicians? Ourselves? God? I loved it all...but no clapping in church, please.
Post a Comment