Worship, worship Jesus... But why?

I can't believe you asked this question!

But anyways, before we get technical, the small update is that I am currently preparing for this Friday's worship. And as I do, I feel led to look at what Wikipedia has to say about it ^^

Quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_worship#Music:
"In Christianity, worship has been considered by most Christians to be the central act of Christian identity throughout history as the personal act of lifting one's mind and heart to God. Many Christian theologians have defined humanity as homo adorans, that is, the "worshipping man," and thus the worship of God is at the very core of what it means to be human.The desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to himself."

In short, (For those of you who are just too lazy to read this) to worship God is to be human. To be what we are. To be a homo adorans, a worshipping human is to be who and what we were created to be.

And to fight that is like saying that an apple tree refuses to grow and bear fruit, believing itself to be a lion. As confusing as that analogy is, it is what happens today. It doesn't take a "church-goer" to worship. All it takes is someone who loves God. And as I believe I have mentioned in the myriad of confusing, black, mourning posts below that to worship is not to sing a song but to live as one adores another; adoring them so much that one is willing to change, to believe and to live the life that object of worship has called us to live by.

Yet, it is sad to see that worship has become a routine in many churches and no doubt the rest of the world. Though Wikipedia is not much of a research source, it is nice to quote from something the world uses most of the time.

Thus we are led to CCM (Quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Christian_music) known as Contemporary Christian Music as "...a genre of popular music which is lyrically focused on matters concerned with the Christian faith. The term is typically used to refer to the Nashville, Tennessee-based pop, rock, and worship Christian music industry, currently represented by artists such as Avalon, BarlowGirl, Jeremy Camp, Casting Crowns, Steven Curtis Chapman, David Crowder Band, Amy Grant, Natalie Grant, Jars of Clay, MercyMe, Newsboys, Chris Tomlin, Michael W. Smith, Rebecca St. James, Third Day, and a host of others. The industry is represented in Billboard Magazine's "Top Christian Albums" and "Hot Christian Songs" charts..."

Hot Christian Songs? Top Christian Albums? Music reviews?

What is happening to worship? Has it been degraded to become an industry?

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Sigh... I know this has been repeated time and time again (by me) but then again, who can sit still watching as the world degrades everything that God gives to us. We degrade sex (into an industry), marriage (into a hindrance and legal leeway(sp?)), love (into something only people who visit whore houses are led to believe), bodies (into machines of forceful attraction) and so on.

Sigh sigh sigh... At any rate, I just remembered why I even began this post. ^^ Give me a sec as I open up a new post.