Take the use of voice. The use of your voice. Now what's the proper way to use your voice?

If your child is in the second floor and is asleep

and his window is open and the stairwell is ablaze

and you are outside, what's a good way

to use your voice?

Yeah, to put it mildly.

By the bus! And nobody on the street would say,

listen to that pastor.

Just listen to him.

It could ruin his voice.

Or something like that.

So in an emergency, a whole different expectation is appropriate.

I didn't expect a teaching on worship to start with a burning staircase.

But that's the kind of illustration that makes you stop and think.

What does urgency sound like in worship? What should it sound like? I'm Dan

Kroover. In this episode of Light and Truth, we're listening in on a Wednesday evening teaching

where John Piper offers a wide-angle view of worship covering everything from musical styles to

moments of crisis and why we need both.

This teaching was originally delivered at Bethlehem Baptist Church on October 3, 1990.

Let me introduce a whole new continuum.

We've been working on this folk culture, fine culture,

continuum. I've got two more continuums to deal with. And I have more questions here than I do

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