Our worship team small group has been both uplifting and enjoyable. It has been uplifting in the fact that we have over ten people just from the worship teams themselves caring about wanting to grow more in their worship and know more about what worship is. It has been enjoyable because people have been so willing to share their hearts, desires and struggles, in just the little time we've been together already. God is certainly moving in our hearts in the time we've been together.
Anyway, I pose this question...what is God's purpose for worship? Why do we do it? Why not just come in on Sunday morning to hear a great message? It's obvious that worship means so much to God...it is more than a warm up for the preaching. In fact, based on what is in scripture, it is much more important to God than receiving a message. Just recognizing the passivity in receiving a message versus the activity in praising God should make us aware of the importance of praise in our devotional and corporate worship times. Now trust me...I am not minimizing the value of discipleship in any way. But I am seeing, based on the scriptures, that God cares more about our corporate reaction and glorification of Him than the corporate activity of receiving a message.
It is my prayer that people in the congregations and the masses in the world would share with God all their feelings, emotions, and expressions of love unashamedly on Sunday mornings; that we might let loose our exuberance and passion for God before the congregation without reservation. Worship is not for us to warm up for the preaching...it is for Him to be magnified.
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