{"id":1650,"date":"2011-03-24T19:32:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T01:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2011-04-21T22:57:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T04:57:05","slug":"danger-favorite-teacher-pastor-worship-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/danger-favorite-teacher-pastor-worship-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Winning Worship Leader or Pastor Is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a title=\"spiderman vs. scorpion by thewhitestdogalive, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thewhitestdogalive\/4187373600\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Which of these super-heroes are better?\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2712\/4187373600_11f85818df.jpg\" alt=\"spiderman vs. scorpion\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spiderman&#39;s my favorite! No, Scorpion&#39;s my favorite!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was recently taken aback by a post on Twitter that I happen to glance at and wanted to get some discussion going.  The tweet basically went like this (I&#8217;m paraphrasing from what I remember):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I can&#8217;t wait until [so-and-so]&#8217;s worship set. \u00a0Then I&#8217;ll really be energized!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I understand that God has consistently used personalities to do His work (Moses and Aaron, Joshua, Sampson, the prophets, Peter, Paul, etc.), but <strong>I wonder if there&#8217;s a danger in the above statement. \u00a0Do we, as Christians declare that without a certain &#8220;persona&#8221; we<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aren&#8217;t able to be energized?<\/li>\n<li>Aren&#8217;t able to be taught?<\/li>\n<li>Aren&#8217;t able to worship?<\/li>\n<li>Aren&#8217;t able to really feel fed?<\/li>\n<li>Aren&#8217;t able to&#8230;.whatever?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Did God use some personalities doing some crazy things to get His people&#8217;s attention? Yes (Specifically thinking of Ezekiel laying on his side and other prophets doing odd things). \u00a0<strong>But the danger remains in the fact that if we don&#8217;t get the worship leader or pastor that &#8220;we want&#8221; we might tune out, assume that we can&#8217;t learn, and potentially harden our hearts to the working of the Holy Spirit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I have my own &#8220;favorite&#8221; teachers, pastors, and worship leaders, but I try to be as open as I can to letting God work through anyone (as long as they&#8217;re proclaiming Biblical truth of course).<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what do you think? Is it dangerous to have a favorite teacher, pastor or worship leader? Is it bad that certain &#8220;personalities&#8221; can stir us up more easily than others?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Ricardo Bandiera | Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/thewhitestdogalive\/\" target=\"_blank\">Photo by Ricardo Bandiera<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/danger-favorite-teacher-pastor-worship-leader\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently taken aback by a post on Twitter that I happen to glance at and wanted to get some discussion going. The tweet basically went like this (I&#8217;m paraphrasing from what I remember): I can&#8217;t wait until [so-and-so]&#8217;s worship set. \u00a0Then I&#8217;ll really be energized! Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I understand that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-worship-leaders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1727,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/1727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}