I LOVE worship music. We have CD's playing in our home and car quite regularly and it's always in the background during counseling sessions. During my 9 years as a Member of the Church of Christ, I recognized how unnecessary it is to have to worship God with musical accompaniment. I can worship God with a kazoo as a result - or with no music at all. Yet, I have attended church services where, because no musician showed up, the minister chose to forego that tradition. 

At a church where I served as Assistant Pastor, a new worship leader addressed our Praise Team at their first practice: "Put down your instruments. We're going to worship God!"

Some of them cried as a result of feeling so uncomfortable. 

I will always remember a popular worship leader who, when speaking at a men's retreat I attended, warned us not to confuse...