Choose Faith

Matthew 21:22 ESV

I don’t know about your experience with faith, but my experience was ever changing. During the late 1960’s through a good part of the 1970’s the Jesus movement put emphasis on a personal relationship with Jesus. Contemporary music changed the face of church worship services.

The movement also changed the ‘face’ of how we view faith.

Matthew 21:22 tells us, “And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.”

As a child of the 1950’s I was raised in a traditional church that practiced structured worship services. Every service had the same elements of hymns from the hymnal, prayer given by the pastor, a special worship song from the choir, a sermon given by the pastor, and closing. The only instruments were the piano and/or an organ.

The Jesus movement updated music adding guitars and other instruments and in many larger churches hymnals were replaced with words on a screen. The intent was to personalize worship services. The faith component was a quiet belief that Jesus was present with us seemed to emphasize the movement of the Spirit in individuals.