You go to church to worship. One reason there is singing during the church service is because it is a worship service. Singing and worship dove tail together to compliment one another. One thing to be careful of, though, is to have the music as your highlight in the worship service. Singing is part of the worship service, but the sermon is essential for spiritual growth. Christ speaks through His Holy Spirt to convict you of sin and to motivate you to spiritual growth, all through the sermon.
One evening a Christian was walking home from a church service, when he stopped to talk to a fellow member who had missed the meeting. The absentee asks him, “Is the sermon done?’ “No,” came the reply, “the sermon is preached, but it remains to be done.” Yes, you can be in church and hear a message, but the message is not done until it is applied to your life. The pastor/teacher preaches for application, not information. The sermon is not done in your life, until you live it out in your daily activities.
When the Book of books talks about preaching, it discusses the reason for doing so. “but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness” (1 Corinthians 1:23; NKJV). Notice the sermon preached resulted in the actions of those that heard the sermon. The Jews said the sermon did not make sense to them. It did not make sense to them because they refused to believe that Christ is in fact the Messiah. Thus, the sermon was a stumbling block in their thinking. The Gentiles evaluated the sermon and said it was foolishness. The Gentiles were looking for some deep thought.
You get the most out of sermon when you ask how it tells you to live your life. Then to go out and live that way!
