Even in the Old Testament times, the psalmist called to rejoice and praise God, because He takes care of and blesses His people. But when the good news of salvation came to earth, Christian glorification reached its apogee. It is not a duty, but a need. The Apostle Paul, in a letter to the Corinthian church, says that it is natural for saved people to praise God. People who have accepted the salvation suffered by Christ do not need to be explained what Christian glorification is. Having known God, it is impossible not to love Him, and having fallen in love, it is impossible not to glorify Him. There are many verses in the Bible that praise the Lord. You can glorify in word and deed.
Christian glorification in Orthodoxy
This is, first of all, a morally pure charitable life, the experience of God's mercy and philanthropy with the mind and heart, admiration for His wisdom and greatness. Orthodox Christians glorify God in prayer, in church services, as well as with their talents and abilities. For a believer, everything: dreams, thoughts, gifts and deeds - are an expression, a manifestation of God's plan on earth.
Glorification inCatholic denomination
Catholics in worship attach exceptional importance to the cult, because they believe that through the sacraments of the Church a person directly touches God and receives grace from Him. The most important sacrament is communion with bread and wine. Like the Orthodox, it is believed that a person gives praise to God not only with his lips, but also with deeds.
Protestant worship
The focus of believers is personal salvation from punishment for sins, which a person receives not on merit for good deeds, but solely on faith in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice. Therefore, Christian glorification for them is a joyful rejoicing and glorification of salvation and new life in Christ. The vast majority of Protestant denominations practice worship through popular Christian songs and musical compositions.
Christian music
Glorification in the language of music has existed since ancient times. Biblical psalms are songs that were sung to the music of strings and other instruments. The treasury of world culture includes the greatest examples of sacred music - Russian and Western European: chorales, hymns, masses. Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Haydn, Berlioz, Schubert worked in the genre of church music. The names of Arkhangelsky, Chesnokov, Gubaidullina, Grechaninov are well known in Orthodox chants.
Musical compositions in Protestant worship from the very beginning were distinguished by improvisation and concert features. And if under the arches of Catholic churcheschants in Latin take off, and angelic liturgical chants in Old Slavonic sound in Orthodox churches, then, according to the plan of the reformer Martin Luther, the entire Protestant community in their native language should have performed the songs in chorus. Melodies for them were often chosen from the secular repertoire.
Popular music as a powerful means of preaching the Gospel was actively used by Americans at the beginning of the last century. Today it is already a special genre. Christian worship groups have contrasted the sad and solemn music of Orthodoxy and Catholicism with joyful, rhythmic and inspiring songs.
