Lately, I’ve been thinking alot about worship, the idea, the expression, the form, the power, the privelege, and the journey. I’ve been struck by the fact that the Lord has a place in worship that He desires us to reach, that we can not come to but by His grace in teaching us. I believe there is yet WAY more to be understood, felt, and experienced in individual as well as corporate worship. Before last week’s IGNITE - I felt led to share on the subject, in the limited understanding that I had. You can find those notes here, but in large part we talked about David, the worshiper, shepherding His sheep on the back side of the hill, being faithful with the small things while gazing up at the starry hosts and singing songs like “The Lord is my Shepherd…”. He was learning how to be a worshipper, and worshippers worship. And worshippers impact the heart of God. And worshipers change the world.

I know that these years for many of us are formative, and by God’s kindness we are being formed into what He wants and not just “the usual” aka our own tiny plans for ourselves. We MUST press on to know Him and come into the abundant life that He spoke of, whether or not it looks different than what we are used to or not. I feel like I’m at a point where I’m hungry enough to throw out all my preconceived ideas about worship and say “Jesus, teach me [us] how to worship!” It is in that vein that I start a series of blogs, few of which will be written by me, where I invite any and all people to express their thoughts about worship. What is it to you? What does it mean? How does God feel about it? What does God want to change about the way we worship, and the form it often takes? My prayer is that God busts in with Holy-Spirit creativity and awe-inspiring captivation of our hearts, that we might be a people “worshipping in the Spirit”, even in difficult seasons, that we might come into the Revelation of Jesus Christ. (Rev. 1)