What else is worship?

How else do we define worship as Christians? The more I read from different authors, pastors, worship leaders the start to see a common theme. The "Worship Team Handbook" by Alison Siewart, Andy Crouch, Matt & Sundee Frazier says, "For Christians, worship has always been an openhearted response to the incredible grace of God." This is about as succinct as you can get.

I'm going to go back to the statement that music isn't worship for a minute. You can have an open hearted response to God's grace, while singing a song. More often though, if our response is serious, we're doing more than singing or playing an instrument. When we truly examine God's incredible grace (think about the sacrifice of Jesus) we WILL sing but before singing can be worship, we're doing something else. We're changing! We're becoming more obedient, we develop a desire to know Him more, we become thankful to our creator and we become repentant, thankful and more forgiving of others.

There is more to worship than just believing or knowing, James 2:19 says, "Even the demons believe - and shudder". In the Worship Team Handbook, Alison Siewart says, "Just believing more interesting things about God is not worship... Real worship permeates life in the way any really significant relationship does."

So, worshiping is not just for Sundays. It's life permeating. It will show up everywhere in your life that you don't decide to hide it!

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