True Worshipers Quotes

“Some Christians have been taught to suppress their emotions as they sing. They've been told to fear feeling anything too strongly, and that maturity means holding back. But what we want to avoid is 'emotionalism', not 'emotions'. Emotionalism pursues feelings as an end in themselves. It's wanting to feel something with no regard to how that feeling is produced or its ultimate purpose.
In contrast, the emotions that singing is meant to express are a response to who God is and what he's done. Vibrant singing allows us to combine truth 'about' God seamlessly with passion 'for' God. Doctrine and devotion. Mind and heart. Suppressing or ignoring your feelings when you sing contradicts what singing is designed to do. Passionless singing is an oxymoron.”
― Bob Kauflin, True Worshipers: Seeking What Matters to God

“why is it so hard for you to receive? You can't even be a Christian if you can't receive?”
― Bob Kauflin, True Worshipers: Seeking What Matters to God

“Let us remember,” hymn writer Isaac Watts (1674–1748) tells us, “that the very power of singing was given to human nature chiefly for this purpose, that our own warmest affections of soul might break out into natural or divine melody, and that the tongue of the worshipper might express his own heart.”
― Bob Kauflin, True Worshipers: Seeking What Matters to God

“Singing is the Christian’s way of saying: God is so great that thinking will not suffice, there must be deep feeling; and talking will not suffice, there must be singing.7”
― Bob Kauflin, True Worshipers: Seeking What Matters to God

“we never begin worship; we aim it”
― Bob Kauflin, True Worshipers: Seeking What Matters to God

“Every church or individual Christian who claims to be Spirit-led must be Word-fed. If we want to know more of the Spirit’s power in our lives, we would be wise to fill ourselves with the riches of his”
― Bob Kauflin, True Worshipers: Seeking What Matters to God