Worship. A call to action?
We were talking about doing a Worship series in our creative planning meeting today. There is a good chance I will actually get to preach during one of those weeks which would be an awesome honor for me.
As we were talking we were going over why people don’t worship and what the level of our congregations “knowledge” is with the actual definitions of worship.
On one hand, worship is not necessarily a “slow song.” Worship is a life style…..which sounds really churchy. But what I mean by that is that God created us to worship Him. Obviously, it is not possible to spend the entire day and night in a state of worship……so what does He want us to do?
Well, God created you and me for a purpose. We worship God with our lives when we are doing what He has created us to do. In short, that means, when we are perfectly living within His will for our lives. An Eagle soaring thousands of feet above the earth is worshiping God because that is what He created the eagle to do. An Eagle attempting to live it’s life in a chicken coup feeding on corn and nesting in a box is not worship. It is, at that point, outside of the will of it’s creator.
But worship is also a call to action. Worship is the outward manifestation of what God has done in your life. The Bible speaks often of dancing, singing, shouting, clapping and going crazy in adoration for our God.
I could argue quite convincingly that standing in the auditorium with your arms folded being a spectator is not “how you worship” but rather, how you observe. If you have bought into the idea that this IS how you worship then you are either lying to yourself, or you have no realization of what God has done for you……
When God shows up, worship happens. Don’t believe me? Read your Bible. I don’t think there are many examples of where God showed up and the dude just stood there with his arms folded. lol.
~jfm3~
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