The Hip-Hop Church

Many efforts have been made to make the church fit what man wants instead of man complying with what God wants. At present I'm in Memphis, TN, and on yesterdays local news much was being said about the hip-hop church. I guess (from local news comment) some hip-hop churches exist in Memphis, but the news comments had to do with a Catholic priest, in new York, and the hip-hop church he has started. They read some of the 23rd Psalm, which had been rewritten in hip-hop language, and showed some of their hip-hop dancing and singing as worship. DO YOU SUPPOSE GOD WAS PLEASED?? Now before you go all bananas on me notice a few things from the scriptures. God, not man determines how He is to be worshiped (John 4:24), He has already said what is to be included in worship to him, and how it is to be done. The worship is to be orderly (I Cor.14:4), includes singing (without instruments), teaching, prayer, the Lord's Supper and Giving (on the first day of the week), is to be edifying, according to truth. Read I Corinthins 14, and you will see that even those who spoke in tongues (a spiritual gift at the time) were regulated. Worship to God was always bound by His scriptures, and when man added something new, or changed it, was never acceptable to God. Remember worship is to please God, not man.