I don't think it's rigidity so much as preference and (perhaps) personality and temperament. I belonged (at one time) to a Pentecostal church where there was much standing, shouting, hand raising, etc. One of the Elders' wives chastised me a bit for sitting down halfway through the 45 minute song service (!). I was tired, my feet ached.
Interesting to have someone feel the same way as I do about the music in church now days. I cannot call it worship as most of it is about the people. Very little about God unless it is what God did for them, how He makes them feel and so on. They might sing "Its all about you Lord but the Lord is not fooled.....its all about them." I was thinking of joining the small children care givers who can listen to the great sermon but don't have to go through the singing all about me songs.
I find many of the hillsong and bethel songs singing not about the Lord, but about the self singing about the Lord. The focus is on the self....how the self loves God because of what the self received....how it feels to love the Lord....."I sing of what you've done for me" is a literal lyric. Used to be that songs taught you something, that is, we also loved God with our minds. Today the idea is to stir to group up to an emotional peak so they can say they "felt the worship" when it is more or less some kind of induce state. Whenever you hear a song leader (or any kind) repeat the same word over and over many times, that is a mantra and it is to get the crowd into some kind of mental trance state. Make no mistake, that is NOT worship of God but worship of the experience.
Don't you want to move beyond thanking Him for what He does for you? And we are not talking dignified or not. We are talking about singing songs all about what He did for you, never about Him. Do you ever sing something concrete about what you do or did for him? Something besides like vauge "live my life for you" which cannot be measured and therefore sung with gusto and tears.
No, they are not. When a man and woman marry, "thank you" is not a part of the marriage vow. If it were, it would be rather low as compared to the weightly promises being made.
OK, well I tried. I have heard of some who saw demons walking into Christian services where others were worshipping the feeling they are working themselves into repeating "mantras" until their subconscious was in the "right state." Thought you might consider something besides focusing on what He does for you. Praying about the worship team at our church singing something for God instead of always what God did for them or how they feel or making promises they don't intend to keep (I'll live my life for you when they don't even live Sunday for Him)
