Emotion Versus Emotionalism
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★SOME people may say that praising God is too emotional. We must understand the difference between emotion and emotionalism. Emotion is when there’s a big play on the field, and everybody gets up in excitement about what the players did. Emotionalism is when you get excited and jump up and there’s nothing happening on the field. We have a lot of emotionalism today where folks are getting excited about nothing. What we need, though, is legitimate emotion or praise, because God is something to get excited about.
The point
Emotion is appropriate response to genuine situations; emotionalism is false excitement; worship should involve real emotion based on God's true worth.
Scripture
Psalm 42:1Proverbs 27:12
Audience
Adults
Tone
Instructive · Clarifying
To tell aloud
under a minute · 87 words