As talked about in GPTG and as we have talked about in class and/or out of class, we all notice that there is too much placed on emotion/feelings in much of the general American church today. I believe that our tendency when we see an issue is to go to the complete opposite spectrum. In this case, doing the completely opposite (I think) would be to have a completely theological/mental worship of God. It would be easy to appeal only to the mind in fear of emotion taking over our worship of God. We will all agree that emotion-filled worship is filled with no depth, floating like a cloud. But to answer this over-emotionalized worship by completely ignore that emotional side would not be right nor biblical.
As we looked at earlier, emotion is one of the parts of our being. Our greatest example of songs in the Bible (at least by numbers) would be the Psalms which are undeniably filled with emotion. Our emotions are very tricky things and I don't think we understand them. This is another reason why I think we fear them.
So my question is: how can we have balance between mind and emotion? Can we make emotion a positive part of our worship? Sure we don't want to manipulate by use of emotion, but can we come to a place where we do not fear emotion, where the mind and the affections work together so that our whole being praises God?
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