Be a Christian, Sing a Song

Once a month, the youth guy from church takes some youth down to Biola University for their "House of Worship." The number of youth vary from 4-10 and sometimes I go along. It is a good way to get to know the youth and the adult leaders.
"House of Worship" is a concert/worship/service/program thing. When the MC was introducing the band he said, "It is easy to get distracted by all of the equipment up here, but don't focus on the equipment, focus on God." There was a lot of equipment and lights, and if the evening was suppose to be about God then it was distracting. But if it was a concert, then it was kinda neat. It had the potential to be a good show. And why can't a group of people, who are Christians, start a band and sing their songs, put on a show, entertain people and express themselves? Why does it always have to be worship? It seemed like they really just liked playing music and wanted to perform it for people, but they were trying to force it to be some kind of worship "experience." I think that if they would have just admitted that they wanted to put on a concert their music would have been better. It wouldn't have had to fit into some kind of worship mold. (Most worship music is not very creative. It all starts to sound the same to me.) They could have just been themselves. I think that it would have been more honest and, strangely enough, more pleasing to God.