There are the churches that still are trying to figure out whether it's appropriate to be boisterous in worship, to sing loudly and to dance and to shout.

You have the right to worship the way you want to worship.

What you don't have the right to do is judge someone else's style of worship as wrong.

Worship is more than an act.

It's an attitude.

Hello, and thanks for spending part of your busy day here with us on Destin for Victory

with Pastor Paul Shepard.

Well, the Bible talks about praising God with the trumpet, with elute and harp, with loud

symbols, and with dance.

And yet these and other forms of worship are often criticized.

Stay with us now to see the damage we can do by condemning forms of worship that are different

from our own.

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Message. Can't we all just get along?

I've told the story when I was coming up that was right when the first debates were beginning about whether it was okay to bring drums and stuff up in churches.

And here we were young people and getting saved, you know, in the late 60s and early 70s, and that's when it was first

becoming an issue. And certainly in the early 70s, I was personally exposed to some of that

as some of us were getting saved and we wanted to, you know, we had to sing the hymns because

that's what the saint sang in service. But we were beginning to get exposed to some of this new gospel contemporary music.

Andre Crouch and the disciples were coming out and what have you and Edwin Hawkins in them.

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