Worship Values
The lesson on developing intimacy and integrity in our lives and our worship leading brings us back to the basics of why we do anything for the Lord, but especially worship. The first thing we need to do is check our motives and remind ourselves that the central figure of worship is the God of the universe, not ourselves. Worship is our whole life responding to the love of God, not exalting ourselves.
If you have joy, amazement and excitement in your services it is because the people are charged with expectation. When we come together for corporate worship, we are expecting the arrival of the King and his Kingdom. We are expecting God to move. We are expecting God to take further ground in our hearts. We are expecting an encounter with God.
Cultural relevance is not about conforming to the world, it's about making worship accessible to every cultural in your church. The modern church congregation is usually very diverse in back ground, ethnicity and culture.
Spiritual Formation is the wanderings of life, the journey toward a person for closer relationship. Our decision to grow spiritually puts us on a course to becoming more like Christ and the wanderings of our journey begin. Most of us have already started this journey and know of the wanderings. Through this section, we were given some suggestions that may help us along.
This course had a poetic feel to it as I went through each lesson so I am trying my hand at poetry. I hope you can sense the passion that I felt. Sorry for the not so good media.