…now all these words are made up from words of three different worship styles. (Traditional, Contemporary, and Relevant). The other day a buddy of mine sent me a link to a video by a church in Atlanta about worship services entitled “Sunday’s Coming”. (The hyperlink is at the bottom of this page!)
…And maybe my mind started churning on this, when we started the Connect to God, Connect to Others (in Faith), and Connect to the World sermon series. When we Connect to God in worship what does that mean?
…Five years ago I was going through a stage that I really didn’t like traditional hymns and/or any old praise music. (anything later than the 2000s) That probably even lasted until I first took the job here at the church. One of my first questions to Pastor David I had was about the worship style here at the church. When we talked about the job, worship was very important to me.
…Even the first time I was preaching in the park, I knew the praise team would not be here and I wanted to preach with my style of worship! I even called in old friends to help lead worship. I look back and think how greedy that was of me…how much I wanted my way, my style, my worship to be imposed on others.
…Worship is more than singing, more than prayer, more than preaching. WORSHIP IS AN ATTITUDE! Worship is what we put into it. Worship is one of the moments in our lives when we can tell God how much we love him, how much we want to meet with him, and how much we want to spend time with him!
…If Worship is boring or found useless in our daily lives…
…what does that mean our friendship with God looks like? Because we know GOD IS AMAZING! GOD IS INDESCRIBABLE! GOD IS GOD!
He continues to woo us…
He continues to wow us…
He continues to love us…
on a daily basis.
God just wants us to call upon him because we love him and want a relationship with him.
So worship is not about relevance…
worship is not about tradition…
worship is not about how contemporary the service is…
Worship is about singing out…
Worship is about praying out…
and Worship is about preaching out…
with reckless and uninhibited abandon for God.
Worship will only ever be what we put into it…
I have heard many people (in relevant, traditional, and contemporary worship services) say, “I felt the presence of God in worship today.”
God’s presence was there all along, maybe, just maybe, that we met God halfway.
Maybe they sang out…
prayed out…
or preached out…
that day the way God calls us to!
These are some thoughts that are going into my web blog this month @ http://brianthefaust.wordpress.com. I would love to hear your comments and thoughts about this blog!
Brian Faust
Director of Youth Ministries
brian@fumcgc.com
“Sunday’s Coming” Movie Trailer from North Point Media on Vimeo.
