As most of you know, I am one of the leaders for Southpoint Community Church's college group, Resolution.
One of the reasons I love Resolution (and Southpoint) is because I feel comfortable to worship the way that I want. I feel at home in the midst of a worship session, and that's what's important to me in a worship session, and Resolution makes that happen.
(Thanks, Res!)
I have been doing a lot of thinking about worship lately, and about how many organizations have very conservative worships settings (or, in some cases, no worship [as in with music] at all).
Let me begin by saying that I see nothing wrong with conservative worship styles; some people are just more conservative or shy than others. I do mind being made to feel badly about the way that I and my friends choose to praise Jesus. I hear a lot (and, I mean, a lot) of "Oh, yeah those crazy people who sing and lift their hands and jump up and down, they are so weird." Why? Why am I weird?
I would implore you to ask these questions:
How do you act at a concert?
What do you do at a dance party or formal?
How do you react when you reunite with a friend that you haven't seen in a long time?
Do you sing along to the radio in the car (if you're anything like my sister and me, this singing is usually accompanied by loudness and hand gestures.)?
If your answers to any of these questions were "singing loudly", "dancing", "shouting", "jumping" or any other gesture or action of enthusiasm, volume or emotion, then why are we the weird ones for doing these things for the only one worthy of all of our praise?
If you are willing to make that much of a fool out of yourself for a performing artist who has no idea who you are, or to songs about nothing, then why won't you give at least that much to the God who died for you?
David, one of the greatest Kings of Israel, man after God's own heart, said "I will celebrate before the Lord. I will become even more undignified than this" (2 Samuel 6:21b-22a).
I don't know about you, but I am definitely striving to be more like David. I mean, man after God's own heart (Acts 13:22)? I'd love to be known as something of the like.
