In.Motion

We’ll always be learning.
I think it’s safe to say that, right? I’ve had a lot of time to process and just kind of take things in recently. I’ve been leading far less and processing a lot more. I think God gives us all times in life where we sit back and take it all in so that He can prepare us for things to come. Here are some thoughts that I’ve been processing through lately:

Time I spend preparing to lead can be far more important than leading.
This has become more evident to me as truth than just a thought. I’m not talking about learning the tunes I’m going to be leading or finding scripture that bolsters the songs. That’s a small part of it, but I’m talking about the amount of time I focus on my relationship with Christ and how honest I am in that relationship. Honest prayer has done so much for my walk and will effect how I lead in the future.

Worship is more than a response to God.
It is also the work of God and His grace in our lives. I’ve heard and talked about how worship isn’t just singing songs as long as I can remember. This guy put it really well so I’ll just quote him, “Grace is God doing for us what we could not and it is God doing in us what we cannot”. I still have a lot of processing left to go to begin to really understand this.

Trusting the Spirit in worship takes all pressure off the worship leader.
Granted, the leader needs to be a good steward of his responsibility and prepare as he should spiritually and musically, but ultimately, if we submit to the Spirit to engage His people in worship, God will be worshiped. And this doesn’t always look like a congregation that is going nuts or being loud. It can be like that, and we’re tempted to expect the Spirit to move in this way most of the time, but the Spirit can move in huge ways in the stillness of hearts or in the contemplation of the mystery of God. When it comes down to it, this is an issue of submission, which I happen to have a difficult time with.

These were just the first things off of my head that I’ve been thinking about. I think it’s spiritually healthy to chew on things that we don’t fully understand sometimes, whether you’re a worship leader or a parking team member (which turns out to be pretty fun). I don’t think I’ll ever fully comprehend the miracle that is grace or what worship fully entails, but I know that I’m ok with that. So, that brings me to you:

What are you processing through right now?

One.Love

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