glam worship/selling out

Originally posted 06/27/07 - http://www.myspace.com/iheartdennycraine

Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with the aformentioned revolution. It has more to do with me being a retard and unable to figure out life. The big question...At what point does genuine passion and belief in something become reduced to selling out to success/materiality? Example: (and not a terribly good one, but one that is freshest in my mind) I'm helping out on a worship team tonight for a "20-something" church service. For anyone who doesn't know me so well, I'm a huge fan of worship music/service/etc. As much as I despise many aspects of today's church and the abomination of religion and mythology so prevalent in our world, I find immense value in three things regarding church: fellowship of like-minded believers (that is to say those who take the same approach to a personal mythology/religion), liturgical tradition (a community solidifying divergent personal mythologies with a unified corporate mythology) and greatest among these three, worship/music/hymns (combines the transcendence of music with the selflessness of worship and the unification of the community) With that being said, what happens to the value of worship when it's infused with rock and roll, pizza party, Xtreme youth, materialist Christianity? Is it still worship through all the fog and haze? Or have we sold out to something completely superfluous? Same question exists with work...I make money and that's wonderful, but at what point do I say, "okay, this is interfering with my dreams, my bliss, my real work....I should be a hermit now."Can't enter it below, but I'm reading the new Africa edition of Vanity Fair...I bought it on a bit of an impulse, feeling guilty because i couldn't name more than six countries in Africa (and only four of those could I place geographically)