Defending Charismatic Worship & Worship as Adoration

Episode 3 is about worship: what it is, why we do it, and why one of us had to be theologically convinced that raising our hands in church wasn’t weird. The three of us all grew up with pretty different worship backgrounds: Bex in a charismatic Pentecostal church, Destiny in the Catholic Church, and John in a more conservative Bible church environment. So we talk through how those backgrounds shaped us, what we used to think worship was, and how the Lord has changed the way we understand it now. We get into John 4, where Jesus says the Father is looking for worshipers who worship in spirit and in truth, and we talk about what that actually means in real life. Not just singing the right words. Not just having good theology. Not just feeling something during the bridge. But actually offering something to the Lord. We also talk about worship and prayer rising like incense in Revelation 8, the sacrifice of praise in Hebrews 13, thanksgiving as worship in Psalm 50, David’s worship in 1 Chronicles 15 and 25, and Romans 12, where Paul says our whole lives are meant to be offered to God as spiritual worship. Basically, this episode is our attempt to defend worship that is expressive, biblical, surrendered, and maybe a little uncomfortable if you grew up a part of the “Frozen Chosen.” We talk about lifting hands, sacrifice, surrender, Catholic reverence, charismatic chaos, Gary V, and why worship is not ultimately about what we get out of it.