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Cheeky Little Game

Here’s a little game to play. Let’s call it “Music Match-up”

I’ll post several pictures divided into three groups. Here what to do: Using the labels “Rock Concert“, “Worship“, and “Church Service“, match the appropriate label to the set of pictures.

I use several websites that house royalty-free image collections, for use in my own websites. One group of pictures was found searching for images about “worship”. Another group of pictures is from searching using the term “church service”. Still another group was put together from the search words “rock concert”. Can you guess which label goes to which set of pictures? Keep in mind, these aren’t necessarily the images that I would choose to match with each label — these are simply the groups of images I found when searching for each of those terms. It is said “a picture is worth a thousand words.”

First group of photos

  • dark room, lit stage, crowd looking on some with hands raised
  • dark room with a shaft of golden light falling across a crowd of people with hands raised
  • dark room with lights on a stage, people looking on raising hands

Second group of photos

  • woman with hands raised on a dark stage
  • man on a stage singing with a video screen behind him and a crowd looking on
  • dark room with stage lit up and a crowd looking on.

Third group of photos

  • hands raised in a dark room with a stage lit up
  • some fog visible around a man playing a guitar on a lit up stage in an otherwise dark room
  • theatre lights shining on stage, fog visible, and a crowd with many hands raised signing peace and i love you

Bible verses noted below are ones that came to mind after putting all these pictures together.

So, can you guess which label yielded which set of pictures? Were you surprised at all, or were you expecting to see more variety in the groups? What are your thoughts? Any Bible verses come to mind? I think you can see that the point is that there is very little difference in the photos. “Worship” in the mind of some is not much different from emotionally charged, sensual, wordly musical entertainment.

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world–the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life–is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

1 John 2:15-17 ESV

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

John 15:19 ESV

Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”

2 Cor 6:14-18 ESV

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 12:2 ESV

 

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