This morning I heard the following passage used to support the idea of external things like musical accompaniment and dimmed lighting to assist in creating a worshipful mood or attitude:
Exodus 30:34-36 34 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take for yourself spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each.35 With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy. 36 You shall beat some of it very fine, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you.
I subscribe to the RPW and do not see these type of things as supported by scripture. Neither musical accompaniment or dimmed lighting do anything to improve my ability to worship. If anything, I find them distracting. Am I making more of this than I should? Is it an RPW issue?
Exodus 30:34-36 34 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take for yourself spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, spices with pure frankincense; there shall be an equal part of each.35 With it you shall make incense, a perfume, the work of a perfumer, salted, pure, and holy. 36 You shall beat some of it very fine, and put part of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting where I will meet with you; it shall be most holy to you.
I subscribe to the RPW and do not see these type of things as supported by scripture. Neither musical accompaniment or dimmed lighting do anything to improve my ability to worship. If anything, I find them distracting. Am I making more of this than I should? Is it an RPW issue?