Different Kind Of Worship
Tuesday
Oct 27, 2009
A simple act of worship.
Have you ever tried to make someone worship “your way?”
Raise your hand if you’re guilty like me.
Wow. That’s a lot of you.
I grew up going to concerts and heading straight for the mosh pit area. We’d jump and push each other around and sing and have a great time. To this day, I enjoy a song that just compels me to jump. I’m not much for raising my hands in the air. I’ll clap sometimes, but you’re far more likely to find me using my hands to drum on something (once a drummer always a drummer).
Really though, sometimes worship is an act of getting down and dirty with God. Fred McKinnon recalls a story…
I will never forget this time I was at a Hillsongs concert in Jacksonville, Florida. It was several years ago and I was with a group of friends … we were down on the 4th or 5th row. Darlene Zschech was leading that fun song, “You Have Turned My Mourning into Dancing” … you know, the one where everybody is standing, spinning around, hands in the air, dancing, carrying on in radical praise …
And I was sitting. Bent over, face in my hands, elbows propped on my knees … having an encounter with the God of the Universe. I forget exactly what we were talking about, but it was a more serious encounter where we were “having words”. In the midst of this time, I remember it was like God called a “sidebar” … we’re just having dialog back and forth, and then totally non-related to our conversation, He calls it out …
Isn’t that really what it’s all about? Worship is like a conversation with God. Sometimes we’re just hanging out, having fun. Other times we go through some serious stuff, even as the world goes crazy around us.
Next time you’re worshiping, go ahead and do what you’ve gotta do. I may forget everything I just typed, but that’s my problem. Don’t let people like me stop you from getting real.
