12 Things Worship is NOT About

1. The look of the room
2. The lighting, either fancy or not so fancy
3. The cool music
4. The "old" music
5. The accoustics of the room
6. Who is singing or playing an instrument on stage
7. Whether the drums are electric or accoustic
8. Whether the worship leader is ugly, skinny, fat, man, or woman
9. The talent of the worship team
10. The actual room itself (a church, a school, your bedroom, a pavillion in the middle of the woods...)
11. The other people in the room
12. What you get out of it
13. The quantity of instruments
14. What instruments are used
15. The quality of the sound equipment

I've had great worship experiences in arenas filled with thousands of teenagers. I've had great worship experiences in the middle of the woods with one dude on his accoustic guitar. I've had great worship experiences when the amps decided to not work that day. I've had great worship experiences where the lights have been on, where the lights have been off, where the people singing had no clue what they were doing, where the words weren't up on the screen, where the words were up on the screen, with my best friends in the room, with people I've hated in the room.

None of it matters. If you think something as trivial as the look of the room or the talent of the worship team matters to God, WHO THE WORSHIP IS ABOUT ANYWAY, you don't really know him. Jesus walked up to guys with leprosy who were probably really smelly and he didn't care! Why would he care if the worship leader's guitar is electric orange or if the only instrument used is a piano?

(I could go on with this list, but these are the ones that come up most often. Want to add more to the list? Leave a comment!)