emotionalism

Categories: forty-blogs-of-lent

Tags: Music, God, Church

Date: 25 March 2012 22:03:59

Forty blogs of Lent

29

It's a Monday in Lent, so the blog is about something that happened in Church yesterday. Today the most profound thing for me was in the lyrics of one of the communion songs. We played "Here I am waiting," (Lyrics here). The response from me may have been inwardly emotional but I see nothing wrong in that. To worship God with all our being may from time to time involve our emotions — which is not the same as emotionalism which is the deliberate working up an emotional response. It is good to rededicate ourselves to God now and again. Songs can help in this.

Come live in me, all my life take over.