"We" Centered Worship

"How can we go deeper in our worship? How can we make it more meaningful and less worthy of parody? And how can we make worship more about “we” the church than “me” the consumer, but above all about God?"

Biola Magazine recently published an article about worship and how churches today practice the art of worship. The article references a video parody put out a little while back that is both hilarious and thought provoking. For those of you who have not seen, “Sunday’s Coming,” watch it, then read this article, "Weightier Worship." 


One thing that stood out to me was the concept of breaking away from "Me" centered worship. There is a reason we call it "corporate" worship when we gather together on a Sunday morning.  We worship together as a community of believers. We worship together both the young and elder, male and female, the musician and the tone deaf. When we gather, we must get away from the thought of what the morning does for me, the individual, and think about what it means for us as a community. Music will change over time. The way we design churches will change over time. The clothes we wear to church will change over time but our God will not change. His word will not change. We must see corporate worship as the proclaiming of God's truth and rejoicing in the promise of the risen Christ not according to our own personal tastes  but according to how our community lives out the gospel together. When we do this, worship becomes something that spiritually unites us instead of something that stylistically divides us.   

-Scott