Addicted to "camp high"?

This clip is taken from the sermon "Jesus' Transfiguration," preached by Pastor Mark Driscoll at the Mars Hill Church Ballard campus in Seattle, Washington, on July 25, 2010. It is the 39th sermon in our sermon series on the Gospel of Luke.

To watch or download the full sermon, visit: http://www.marshillchurch.org/media/luke/jesus-transfiguration

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[houseguy4]

This is the reason I dropped out of choir. After a certain series of tunes and certain chord progressions which are designed to evoke certain emotions, some well meaning person would comment "can't you just feel God's presence" or " the Holy Spirit was really present today!", as if He was not there all along, Many felt as if our musical talents did some sort of "rain dance" to command Him down from His throne to join us.

Movie sound tracks do this.

God is ALWAYS present, music or no music.

[godrox]

Yes! Many youth groups need to watch this after coming back from their mission trips.

[brennan2185]

This is why flamboyant denominations tend to crash- people are left with whip-lash when the emotional roller coaster screeches to a halt after the yelling, flopping on the floor and dancing around doesn't evoke some great "heavenly high". The fire of the emotional experience quickly fizzles out, yet they still keep trying to revive it Sunday after Sunday. It just becomes a religious act like in a Catholic church; kneel, sit, stand; kneel, sit, stand; communion; kneel, sit, stand; 12:00, leave.

[dzpisx]

@thnguyen24 Snortin' up tha glory!

[dzpisx]

Ah I live high on the Most High 24/7 and this was kinda convicting. It does seem like I make a ritual out of worship.. Or try to relive past experiences....

[Jbstan7]

Peter did the feast of Tabernacles because our Father invites us to rehearse His cycles to learn His story/plan. Minimize and use what Peter was doing as something else? Use His feasts to show His plan. He shows up at His feasts. If you want to show the problem with living on mountain tops, use a different scripture.

[thnguyen24]

christian cocaine...

[yaminoanil]

@whateverzish It's not a sin to remember something fondly on occasion. It IS a sin when you want to be stuck in a certain experience and instead of being open to new experiences that God can use to reveal Himself, you are blinded because you only want to relive one specific moment. It's similar to people in middle age who try to hang on to their 20's because that was the high point in their life and they want to feel that way forever. They're shut off from new experiences in their current age.

[whateverzish]

I see it's unwise to want to relive experiences, but where does he get "it's a sin to want to relive mountaintop experiences"? Seemed like an assertion without any backing to me...

#honest question#

[time4u2cit]

Very true & very good explanation

[joydubyadee]

Thanks, Pastor Mark. This is what I needed to hear.

[houseguy4]

@blainer19er Blainer - Good stuff! Here's a test: take out the "soundtrack'" for "worship time". Same emotions? Probably dull. Music drives emotions. Try any move without music. A good composer can make you laugh or cry with sounds.

At my age, when I think of Jesus dying for me, it humbles me and I crumble to my knees, not turn up the volume.