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PUTTING AN END TO WORSHIP WARS - Elmer Towns

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3. Recognize the strengths of the church where you found Christ, and what that<br />

church has done to formulate your basis view towards Christianity. Almost everyone remembers<br />

the church and the worship service where they found Christ. Also the place where they were<br />

grounded in their faith will always have an enduring influence in their perspective. Since you<br />

can't re-write history and you can't undo experiences, you have to grow according to the roots<br />

that have been planted in the soil. Therefore, know yourself, know your background, and<br />

worship the way you have to worship.<br />

4. Know your spiritual gifts and worship from strength. Part of worshipping<br />

properly is to properly know your spiritual gifts. Because many churches represent a colony of<br />

spiritual giftedness, you ought to know both your dominant spiritual gift and the dominant gift in<br />

the church where you are attending. This will help you maximize your strengths to the church,<br />

and it will help you understand what contribution the church will make to your maturity and<br />

growth in grace.<br />

5. Know the contribution of a church to you where its dominant spiritual gift is<br />

different from yours. When God leads you to a church that has a worship expression that is<br />

different from your expectation, you should not fight it, nor try to split the church, or even lead<br />

people out of the church. If you have to remain in a church which has a worship expression that<br />

is different from your expectations, try to learn what you can about the church and grow in grace.<br />

Then, recognize how you can make your best contribution to that church. If it is an evangelistic<br />

church and your gift is Bible teaching, don't agitate for sermons that are Bible teaching in<br />

reflection. Try to determine how you can use your spiritual gift of teaching to strengthen the<br />

church in which God has placed you.

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