1. Exalt His Name Understanding Music and Worship
Chapter 10: Worship To A Millennial Generation

2. Worship To A Millennial Generation
Our current generation is little different from Paul’s circumstances

3. Worship To A Millennial Generation
Our current generation is little different from Paul’s circumstances
Facing idol worship
What are the idols that the Millennials are facing today?

4. Worship To A Millennial Generation
Our current generation is little different from Paul’s circumstances
Facing idol worship
Secularism
What does current secularism teach?
Pantheistic – All roads lead to enlightenment
There are no absolutes – there is no truth except as how you define it
They support non-rational behavior a spiritual while rejecting traditional and/or rational thinking
They are utilitarian or need based in their approach to accepting Biblical theology

5. Worship To A Millennial Generation
Our current generation is little different from Paul’s circumstances
Facing idol worship
Secularism
Hedonism
How is Hedonism expressed in Millennial culture
They want to experience what they believe – and believe what they experience
The pursuit of pleasure and their own desires is their focus

6. Worship To A Millennial Generation
Our current generation is little different from Paul’s circumstances
Facing idol worship
Secularism
Hedonism
Rampant sexual abuse
This one is interesting – certainly it is exists today – but this generation is starting to take a strong stance against this
But it

7. Worship To A Millennial Generation
Our current generation is little different from Paul’s circumstances
Facing idol worship
Secularism
Hedonism
Rampant sexual abuse
Open hostility to the gospel
How is this seen I today’s cuture
The Gospel is not seen as the solution – but rather the problem.
The gospel is seen as old/outdated
They point to failures of religious institutions of man to prove that the gospel is not true

8. Worship To A Millennial Generation
15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. 16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. 17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. 23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters
Since the times are similar, we can use the words of Paul to guide or worship
Colossians 3: , 23

9. Millennial Worship Ministry Design

10. Millennial Worship Ministry Design
Focus on the Sovereign’s Message
16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you

11. Millennial Worship Ministry Design
Focus on the Sovereign’s Message
The Word of Christ is personal

12. Millennial Worship Ministry Design
Focus on the Sovereign’s Message
The Word of Christ is personal
The Word of Christ is practical

13. Millennial Worship Ministry Design
Focus on the Sovereign’s Message
The Word of Christ is personal
The Word of Christ is practical
The Word of Christ is purposeful

14. Millennial Worship Ministry Design
Focus on the Sovereign’s Message
Focus on the scriptural method
16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.

15. Millennial Worship Ministry Design
Focus on the Sovereign’s Message
Focus on the scriptural method
Teach one another
16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
Teach – instruct, explain, direct
Not just for entertainment or enjoyment
Purposeful tool for instruction
Not just the warm-up for the sermon
Not JUST to prepare or hearts for the word of God
Worship has the power to create Spirit filled moments of revelation and teaching

16. Millennial Worship Ministry Design
Focus on the Sovereign’s Message
Focus on the scriptural method
Teach one another
Admonish one another
16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
Admonish – Invite, encourage, shape and mold
Worship can/should encourage, build up and spiritually mature fellow believers

17. Millennial Worship Ministry Design
Focus on the Sovereign’s Message
Focus on the scriptural method
Focus on using sanctified music
16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.

18. Millennial Worship Ministry Design
Focus on the Sovereign’s Message
Focus on the scriptural method
Focus on using sanctified music
Psalms, Hymns and Spiritual Songs
16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.
Book Interpretation
Psalms – Song based on PT Scripture
Hymns – Dogma or Doctrinally Based Songs
Spiritual Songs – Songs designed t meet spiritual needs (IE teaching based on Christian experience etc….)
Alternate Interpretation
NT scholars, such as F. F. Bruce, argue that although the terms may indicate slight differences, “it is unlikely that any sharply demarcated division is intended.”[21] Douglas Moo claims, “Whether we can distinguish the meanings of these three terms is questionable.”[22]Andrew Lincoln represents a primary explanation for this view by claiming that “the three terms used here are best seen as another example of this writer’s fondness for piling up synonyms,”[23]and Frank Thielman asserts, “Since the three terms seem almost interchangeable, and since Ephesians has a tendency to be redundant, it is probably a mistake to distinguish the terms sharply from one another

19. Millennial Worship Ministry Design
Focus on the Sovereign’s Message
Focus on the scriptural method
Focus on using sanctified music
Focus on maintaining a servant’s manner
15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
The focus here is on peace. Having inner peace. Being in peace with your brothers and sisters
Working with and building each other up.
Recognizing that God is our sovereign master and that everything that we are/have is His
I feel that this is the part that leads to authenticity in worship. If you lack this, people will immediately see that your focus is wrong. They will not believe what you are saying and will not easily enter into worship. They may worship despite you, but only because they understand the truth.

20. Millennial Worship Ministry Design
Focus on the Sovereign’s Message
Focus on the scriptural method
Focus on using sanctified music
Focus on maintaining a servant’s manner
Focus on cultivating Holy motives
17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
16 singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. = Source of the song. Let it overflow your heart.
Not with selfish ambition. Not with a look as to what you will receive. But with an attitude of pleasing God.

21. Next Week
Large Picture
Worship The
Names of God

22. Thank You Christopher R Carlson 262 902 1579 Chris@Carlsonworld.net