Worship is not a part of the Christian Life, IT IS the Christian life!

This last weekend we had our launch team service. I had the honor and privilege of teaching this Core Value with Liz.

This Core Value states: "I see a church that loves to Worship God: through creative expressions of worship such the arts, serving, giving, corporate worship, we create a culture of worship that provides a tangible and undeniable experience with God."

John 4:23 states: "Its who you are and the way you live that count before God. Your worship must engage your spirit in pursuit of truth. That's the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before Him in their worship. God is sheer being - Spirit. Those who worship Him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration."

I love that it is who we are and the way we live that count before God. He looks at the heart. God is calling us all to live worship every day, to effect the world with the what God has placed in us. Not just those on worship teams, but us as a church. To be GENUINE WORSHIPERS. Genuine means not counterfeit, real, free from pretense and hypocrisy, sincere.
Liz spoke of the origin of worship the first mention in the WORD and how our giving is also apart of the whole worship picture. Giving everything to Him. And the arts... if we are created in the image of God then we have to be creative. We all have creativity within us.

So this was the part of the night I loved the most. We ask the team to create something themselves for God. We had a short acoustic worship set, we laid out paper, pens, scissors, pastels, charcoal, markers, crayons, printed words, colored paper, words we cut out of magazines. Then as God spoke to each one, whether in worship or if something stuck out to them through the teaching, they put it on paper. It was such a beautiful time and a very private time. It was amazing to see the result. Watching each one get up, go, pick up what they needed and bring it to life. Wow. I was just moved beyond words. I would have loved to see and hear them all. But I know it was between the Father and each one.
We serve an incredible God, He truly is all we need & all we want. So thank you Jesus for once again being apart of all we did.

Today we had our assessment for Church planting with OMN. It was a great time. We are excited to have this last part of the Church planting process over.

Will post some photos of the service soon... blessings to all.