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Plainly worship is more than music (Romans 12:1) but, since you brought it up, I am interested in music as worship. Communal worship has always been important and music important as a part of it. But what of the mystical ‘worship experience’?* I’m theoretically charismatic born and raised and sometimes during the music,… that feeling of a lifting, a putting into perspective of the trials of life, a connection… to fellow worshippers and, maybe, to the divine… it’s amazing and powerful and addictive and…… I’ve felt the same way at rock gigs…

Does that invalidate the whole experience?

Have I mistaken for divine the inherent power of music, or of being in a crowd of the likeminded or, worse still, of showmanship?

Or

Is music inherently spiritual?

Or something else?

*2nd disclaimer. No, I’m not advocating spiritual experience as a goal of worship in its own right. Yes, I know the root of the word worship. BUT this post is specifically to get people’s thoughts on this experience.

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