Wednesday, July 25, 2007

That sounds wrong!

Step 3 of this week’s lesson, “Integrity” examines “how to express integrity?” The LifeWay material describes worshipping with integrity as worshipping God as He instructed.

I thought of illustrating this using a song that’s performed either according to the way it was written, or according to some new interpretation by a particular artist. The level of integrity expressed by the artist depends on how well the performance matches that which the author intended.

For example, we’ve all heard songs performed that don’t sound “right” (sometimes when a current artist performs a classic tune). We hear the rendition and say, “That’s just wrong!”

That’s how I imagine God reacts when we worship Him without integrity.

You can come up with your own song if you choose to use this illustration, but as an example, I offer a guy doing a horrible rendition of a John Lennon classic.

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