I am afraid that in our day we are too often prone to think that God is only worshiped in the “Wow” moments, and then we begin to feel pressure as musician-ministers to “produce” those moments. We confuse inspiration and worse yet, cheap thrill with Spirit power.

It is this kind of thinking that causes us to concentrate more on what happens on the platform than in the pews… We feel we have to make something happen, or at least make it appear as if it is…

While chasing the approval of malcontents, we may miss the “ordinary” miracle of…a sincerely warm handshake between disparate worshipers. We may be distracted from noticing a teenager enthusiastically singing a traditional hymn, or a senior adult engaged in a modern worship song.

from Pursuing the Ordinary