The Only Measuring Tool For Worship
I twittered this a few weeks ago…
Remember,the only measuring tool to measure “worship” on Sunday mornings is the level of surrender in your heart. Not experience & feeling.
Simple.
Los
I twittered this a few weeks ago…
Remember,the only measuring tool to measure “worship” on Sunday mornings is the level of surrender in your heart. Not experience & feeling.
Simple.
Los
RAIN IT DOWN
So good! Getting ready to lead and this is exactly what I needed to read.
You're exactly right. Will journal about this in the afternoon as I tend to rely on experience AND feeling.
Great thought…simple and challenging!
At first I didn’t really get this. I am most able to worship when I feel it. Then, I read your post a few more times and it clicked. I think there is a progression that leads to true worship. First you experience something, then you have feelings about or during that experience. But to truely have that experience and those feelings turn into worship, they must lead you to place where you surrender something. For me, it is being somewhere, feeling something, then doing something about it! It’s all about application, baby! Thanks Los!
I would have to add: and only if that surrender on Sunday morning is an extension of a life of surrender. You don't turn it on and off.
Agreed!
definitely agree with this too. Worship is a lifestyle, and attitude…every moment, every day
I understand surrender today more than ever. As a recovering addict (662 days) I must surrender each & every day. God has taken away the obsessions, but only because I surrender every day & agree that my life is unmanageable under my control. Getting away from my self-centered "feelings" is hard. I WANT that control, my will, not God's. It feels so good to surrender. Just give it up! Live in the moment & then pay it forward.
Amen! So often I make worship about me or about personal preference. But then I watch my 7-year-old worship with complete abandon, singing at the top of his lungs, head bobbing and grinning back and forth between my hubby and me, and I am convicted. He gets it. It' s about giving my all to Him because of Who He is, not because of what I get out of it.
Your words are wisdom at her finest. Thank you for bucking the trend.
And the more we surrender, the deeper our experience … you just don't know that until you surrender
wow,los, you should have your own blog…wait…
Surrender is certainly important, but why must it come at the expense of experience and feeling? God cares about all three.
true true true
That is so very true. I wish more people realized that.
Saw it on Twitter. It was true then and it's still true now.
Our desire to be rock stars on the church stage does not gel with this truth. It's something I try to remind my teams of often. God doesn't need us. We're not that important. God can do whatever He wants through anybody He chooses. Our call is to let God fill us and then let Him pour us out to those who need it.
It's in the filling and pouring that we surrender our hearts to His will.
That is very true. It kind of parallels with our worship team reminding each other who are 'true' audience is. Our worship center holds around 300 people, but we have a weekly attendance sometimes of 700-800, so we have three services on Sunday (along with a Saturday evening service). Sometimes, that noon service will have 40-50 people and after playing for nearly 400 the previous two services, it's very easy to just phone it in. That's when the reminder kicks in that the audience really isn't the congregation. It's the Lord. We play for Him and when we do so, we worship and provide an outlet for the audience sitting in the chairs to worship as well.
Often people will come up to me after a service and say, "Hey you guys were really great today!" or, "That one song was excellent." Some kind of compliment and that's great to hear. But what really moves me however, is when somebody comes up to me and says, "That song really affected me today" or "That song truly spoke to me about a certain area of my life." That's when I know God was really moving through the worship team.
I think a good question might be "How do you define 'worship'?"
Truth.
This is my favorite thing I've ever read from you. As soon as it came across twitter it started to change the way I worship and not just the way I worship but its allowed me to challenge others. I even reblogged it last week. Thank you.