I have a friend named Karen. She is someone that knew me as a teenager and lead a big part of my life towards Jesus. Karen has the greatest patience and biggest heart to see students return to Christ. But she can’t sing a lick. I can remember being in church with her after spending the week at camp with the youth group and hearing her sing. “Holy cow!” , I thought. It defined “tone deaf” for me.
If you’re out of the church and not familiar with it, worship conjures up movie scenes of bowing down. It’s actually not far off. If you’ve been in the church long enough though we think of worship as music. I do—I have a worship team. I go to worship practice. Worship isn’t really music at all. Which is great news for you Karens out there. We’ve even been conditioned to think that those who are better at music are somehow better at worship. But reality is this: it’s not about how you sing, but when you could. Think of “singing” more like “expressing” . Could you sing or express worship after losing $200? How about when you’re late, and you get a speeding ticket? Or when your days plans get completely wrecked?
The movie idea of bowing down is simply a symbol of acknowledgement—knowing that there’s something bigger than us. In our case, a God who is coming after us in all love and truth, knowing us for our true identity already.
Take a look at Acts 16:16-40
Put yourself in the modern day equivalent of Paul and Silas. What would be your emotions and reactions to your circumstances?
How many people were effected by their worship?
If you’re out of the church and not familiar with it, worship conjures up movie scenes of bowing down. It’s actually not far off. If you’ve been in the church long enough though we think of worship as music. I do—I have a worship team. I go to worship practice. Worship isn’t really music at all. Which is great news for you Karens out there. We’ve even been conditioned to think that those who are better at music are somehow better at worship. But reality is this: it’s not about how you sing, but when you could. Think of “singing” more like “expressing” . Could you sing or express worship after losing $200? How about when you’re late, and you get a speeding ticket? Or when your days plans get completely wrecked?
The movie idea of bowing down is simply a symbol of acknowledgement—knowing that there’s something bigger than us. In our case, a God who is coming after us in all love and truth, knowing us for our true identity already.
Take a look at Acts 16:16-40
Put yourself in the modern day equivalent of Paul and Silas. What would be your emotions and reactions to your circumstances?
How many people were effected by their worship?
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