Thoughts on Worship

Guest Blogger: Jeremy Owens, Worship Leader

Worship has always been a misunderstood topic. I have heard people say “that was some awesome worship”, when they are actually just referring to the music. Even the term “worship service” is confusing because to many people worship is just the term used for the musical portion of the service.

Worship is so much more than a service, music, words and phrases.  The God of Universe that created me and created you, the God that sent His one and only Son to this earth to die so that we could spend eternity with Him deserves a heart felt reverent response to His amazing love, mercy, compassion and grace towards us.

It starts in our heart.

If we really believed that God is who He says He is we would respond to Him how Abraham did when he took his only son Isaac up to the mountain to sacrifice him because God told him to. Or we would respond the way Noah did when he built a huge boat in the midst of ridicule & mockery because God told him to. The real truth we can pull from both of those stories from the Bible is that worship begins with obedience. If we really believed in our heart that God is who He says He is, then we like Abraham and Noah, would offer our lives to Him everyday.  This is the heart of worship:  we respond to God -- both to Who He is and to what He has done.