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UMPJ praise course — edition 2026

The most recent edition, at Ndoumbi, led by Brother Theodore Andoseh. The year's thread holds in one sentence, repeated throughout: worship elevates, idolatry degrades. It opens with music restoring harmony, states the law — what you worship shapes you — tests it in reverse through Romans 1, where the refusal to give thanks sets off a descent, and closes on Psalm 73 and then on how God forms co-workers. Four of the six broadcast sessions are transcribed: the 22 August session, given to Brother Landry's review of the previous year's course, is not in the collection.

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The teachings

Day 2

  1. Music restores harmonyThéodore Andoseh · Ministry practice

    20 August. Opening of the course. Sin establishes disharmony; music is one way of restoring it, and Christian music should aim at imposing it. Elisha calls for a musician to bring his whole being back into harmony before prophesying. The session also announces the collected summaries of the course from 2016 to 2023, prepared by Brother Landry, and closes on Romans 12:15 — rejoice with those who rejoice, against self-absorption.

Day 3

  1. Worship elevates, idolatry degradesThéodore Andoseh · Responding to God

    21 August. The heart of the year's teaching. What you worship shapes you: worship is a moulding process. Psalms 115 and 135 — those who make idols become like them — and 2 Corinthians 3:18: beholding transforms from glory to glory. Idolatry strips away, one by one, the faculties it touches: vision, ministry, service, mission, communion.

Day 5

  1. Romans 1: the drift of those who refuse to give thanksThéodore Andoseh · Thanksgiving · Responding to God

    23 August. Romans 1:18-32 read as a descent. Every person has a natural knowledge of God through creation, society and providence; what they do with it decides their drift. Those who answer it with thanksgiving move towards God, the others away, and the text repeats that "God gave them over". Three marks of idolatry: what we admire, what we fear, and those before whom we bow.

Day 6

  1. Psalm 73 and the making of co-workersThéodore Andoseh · Responding to God · Ministry and leadership

    24 August. A closing in two movements. Psalm 73 first: the embittered heart that compares itself, until entering the sanctuary, where the prosperity of the wicked loses its substance — "I was a brute beast before you". Then the question of co-workers: Moses chooses on competence, on Jethro's advice, and the burden remains. God does not form co-workers in the arena of competence, but among those who stand with him in his presence.

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