Abstract
From the beginning of time we have been a people of expression, a people of emotion, a people of intensity, and a people of action. Our worship services have traditionally reflected these characteristics. This tradition is rooted in African holistic worship where God’s creation worships God with being and life. Yet as Africa’s descendant generations have integrated into Western culture’s version of Christianity, some assimilation hasoccurred. This began when many African descendants decided the “right” way to worship was similar to the Christianity of
their foreparents. With education and sophistication came an abandonment of roots and an acquisition of a style of worship not true to their heritage. Today we are living in that inheritance of restrictive worship of and to God.