I believe the true role of the minister in worship is perplexing. One that reminds me a lot of the roles of Christians, to give Christ our burdens, but yet take up his yoke and follow him. We find refuge in becoming a slave. What I mean is we must submit our ministry to God, look to him, and allow him to use us.
As ministers, we must get out of the way and let God do his thing through us. Do we always get out of his way? No. We fail often and have to remind ourselves of just who our Audience is (i.e., God). But he's always faithful! He's been drawing the church into his presence for two millennia (not to mention the tabernacle & temple before that). His people have approached him over that time in numerous ways.
But where do we draw the line between the work of the Spirit and our own preparation? We have/are a generation(s) that is tired of facts, figures, doctrine, logic, and appearances. Rightly so, in my opinion, though we ought not to abandon it all. We long for mystery, transcendence, the numinous and the real/experience. We crave encounter with that which is outside ourselves. Personally, I think we don't know what we're really asking when we seek God's guidance in such a way, and would hesitate to ask if we truly knew.
If we go into a worship time, looking to put on a captivating, entertaining experience, he doesn't usually oblige. If we come to him seeking, honoring, praising, and listening to him in an authentic way, I believe we should watch out, because what he delivers is way beyond the expectations of our little minds. Call it exhilarating, holy, exciting, humbling, convicting, captivating, authentic, a WOW experience, quieting, disquieting, centering or whatever else he desires it to be. Entertaining? As long as He is the audience and we worshippers collectively are the performers, sure. There is an aspect to all of this where the focus has to turn to who we are as worshippers, but we have to remember he is the object of our worship.
INSTRUMENTS IN WORSHIP? One of the most debated issues in today's church is instruments in worship. ... One can argue that there is no condemnation of worshipping with instruments. ... The use of instruments is not worshiping, but simply an aid to worship just as a visual aid is used in preaching. ... The next question asked is: Are the use of instruments commanded in worship? ...
I tried for this project to reflect very different worship services. ... In my personal worship style I do appreciate a good sermon or homily, however I find more personal spiritual enlightenment in the liturgical style of worship. ... What better place to think about the problems that you are having in your life then in the quietness of community worship? ... In my worship service, I designed a prayer service that took beneficial aspects from all four of the services. ... But instead have created a worship service that is an example of the great qualities that I experienced in all of...
I have worked with many individuals that had their own belief system, customs and ways to worship. ... From what I have read and understand, a religious belief system refers to a belief in, or the worship of god or gods or the service and worship of god or the supernatural. ... " In Christianity there are many gods that we worship very similar to Greek mythology. ... Sacred Space in defined as a place of worship or a place the sacred can take place. ... As said in the "Sacred Quest", other sacred religions with places of worship is Buddhism and there place of worship called a St...
The object I have chose for this paper is Standing Female Worshiper(figure 1). ... The Sumerians were also polytheistic, meaning they worshiped more than one god.2 This object is a votive figure. ... They were used as surrogate worshiper's in place of the person themselves. Mainly wealthier worshipers were able to afford this luxury of not having to visit the temple everyday.3 Figure 1 depicts a woman votive figure, she has large eyes and clasped hands in front of the chest. ...
Our Society Does Worship Youth Our society is overfilled with many different dealings. ... When we look around our society, we can see many people that are worshiping the youth. ... Overall when we look around our society, we can see the people worship youth. In my opinion, I muscularly believe that mostly women are worshiping the youth and the least of men. ...
One of the most important ancient faiths, characterized by its great impact in the western civilizations is the Ancient Greek Worship. ... As you can see, the Greek Worship has been recognized as one of the most important, antique and influential faith. ...
In Joseph Conrad's, Heart of Darkness, the unusual Russian seems to have been thrown into the story for no significant purpose except for being Marlows broadcaster and Kurts palace fool. In this book the Russian is an odd character. He seems to pop out of nowhere and he just happens to have so muc...
I shun legalism in any worship style. ... Let's be creative in worshipping Him. Creativity in worship brings freshness to old ways. ... "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and the who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." ...
