Even in the Old Testament times, the psalmist called to rejoice and glorify God, because He takes care of and blesses his people. But when the good news of salvation came to earth, Christian glorification reached its climax. 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 glorify God. People who have received the salvation suffered by Christ do not need to explain what Christian worship is. Having known God, it is impossible not to love Him, and having loved - it is impossible not to glorify Him. The Bible generally has many verses praising the Lord. You can glorify in word and deed.
Christian glorification in Orthodoxy
This is, first of all, a moral pure God-pleasing life, an experience of God's grace and humanity with mind and heart, admiration for His wisdom and greatness. Orthodox Christians glorify God in prayer, in church services, as well as their talents and abilities. A believer has everything: dreams, thoughts, talents and actions - are an expression, a manifestation of God's purpose on earth.
Catholic worship
Catholics in religious services attach exceptional importance to the cult, since they believe that through church sacraments a person directly touches God and receives grace from Him. The most important sacrament is communion with bread and wine. As with the Orthodox, it is believed that a person praises God not only through his lips, but also through deeds.
Protestant worship
The focus of believers is personal salvation from punishment for sins, which a person receives not according to his merits for good deeds, but solely by faith in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice. Therefore, Christian glorification for them is a joyful rejoicing and glorification of salvation and a new life in Christ. The vast majority of Protestant movements practice worship through popular Christian songs and musical compositions.
Christian music
The glorification of the language of notes has existed since ancient times. Bible 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. In the genre of church music, Stravinsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Haydn, Berlioz, Schubert created. The names of Arkhangelsky, Chesnokov, Gubaidullina, Grechaninov are well known in Orthodox chants.
Musical compositions in Protestant services from the very beginning were distinguished by improvisation and concert features. And if under the vaults of Catholic churches, hymns 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 whole Protestant community in the native language should sing songs. 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 contrasted the sad and solemn music of Orthodoxy and Catholicism with joyful, rhythmic and inspirational songs.