Do I really mean what I'm saying when I'm singing?
In the book Sacred Pathways, Gary Thomas explains nine different "personality profiles" related to connecting with God. Much like the popular Enneagram or Myers-Briggs personality assessment tools, he leads the reader to a deeper understanding of their own preferred path to knowing God and the different ways different people relate to God.
In the chapter on what Thomas calls "Sensates" (those who love God through the senses and experiences), he warns that people can get caught up in what their senses are experiencing without any true worship taking place:
It amazes me how casually I can sing songs of deep, almost heroic commitment....While my mind wanders, I promise to bow before the Lord, to proclaim his name to the ends of the earth, and to go so far as to die to express my faith. Yet these words may be sung with scarcely more emotion than I feel when I'm ordering a hamburger. How often do we Christians take the Lord's name in vain during worship?
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Truth is...Many a hymn or praise chorus should be considered not so much a declaration of truth as a prayer of good intention. "I believe. Help my unbelief!"
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