When our worship is not consumed with the person of God, our worship will either be stifled or distracting.

What would Winnie the Pooh cartoon be like if everyone had Eeyore’s personality? People would have to stop watching it because it’d plague them with weeks of depression. Or what if all the characters had Tigger’s personality? We’d feel like we ran a marathon by the time we got to the end. That is the beauty of variety.

God created all of us unique, so the moment we create an unspoken expectation of what worship expression should look like, we poison the variety that so wonderfully reflects His beauty.

God is one! But the members of Christ’s body, the church, are more varied than cookies in a candy store. So let us be who God made us.

You are free to worship unhindered before the Lord, whether you look like a a statue in a Catholic cathedral from the medieval ages or you dance like a Chihuahua on Red Bull.

The moment my personality becomes restricted by a religious culture we’ve created, I am no longer truly and fully worshipping the living God! I’ve surrendered true worship with a church-manufactured product that is either stifled or distracting. We must remove style from the center of debate over worship in church and replace Jesus Christ at its center. He is to be central to all worship.