Pastor Kent had a great message on worship this morning. He spoke about how a worship service is not just music or preaching, rather it is music, preaching and prayer. It is everything in the service which brings praise, honor and glory to God. Since this is a music blog I thought I would look at this from a music perspective. The verse he used to show how music and teaching relate to the service was in Ephesians 3:16:
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God."
"Singing songs, hymns and spiritual songs." I asked myself if we had done that today at Mountain View. The answer I came to was yes we indeed did follow this pattern. We sang a blend of hymns and spiritual songs. Some of the songs were very traditional, some were a little newer and one was very new. All of them had words which would honor Christ and worship him directly. God was honored by this.
Pastor also said we should be "singing a new song to the Lord." This verse is found in Psalms 33:3. The entire verse says: "Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts." Ok, so again I wondered if we had obeyed this verse in the service this morning. I would overall have to say yes. We sang a new song called "Indescribable" by Chris Tomlin. I did also try to play skillfully with strings. I am not sure I accomplished this task but I am trying :) Finally comes the "with loud shouts" portion of this verse. Well I am not sure on the loud shouts, but maybe I will grow to be a little more free with God to where I can do this type of thing. "Loud shouts" don't exactly come easy for the average Baptist.
The bottom line is we are blessed at Mountain View to Have a good bunch of people who love to sing. Our choir is led by Miss Deb who does an excellent job keeping everyone singing on the right page and keeping the choir and congregational music Christ honoring. She makes up the backbone of the music leadership. I just come in every Sunday and fill in the gaps. I get the easy job! :) Thanks Deb for your hard work and thanks choir for you willingness to stand up for Christ by singing every week.
Pray for our music leaders and members as we learn more about what it means to worship the Lord.
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God."
"Singing songs, hymns and spiritual songs." I asked myself if we had done that today at Mountain View. The answer I came to was yes we indeed did follow this pattern. We sang a blend of hymns and spiritual songs. Some of the songs were very traditional, some were a little newer and one was very new. All of them had words which would honor Christ and worship him directly. God was honored by this.
Pastor also said we should be "singing a new song to the Lord." This verse is found in Psalms 33:3. The entire verse says: "Sing to him a new song; play skillfully on the strings, with loud shouts." Ok, so again I wondered if we had obeyed this verse in the service this morning. I would overall have to say yes. We sang a new song called "Indescribable" by Chris Tomlin. I did also try to play skillfully with strings. I am not sure I accomplished this task but I am trying :) Finally comes the "with loud shouts" portion of this verse. Well I am not sure on the loud shouts, but maybe I will grow to be a little more free with God to where I can do this type of thing. "Loud shouts" don't exactly come easy for the average Baptist.
The bottom line is we are blessed at Mountain View to Have a good bunch of people who love to sing. Our choir is led by Miss Deb who does an excellent job keeping everyone singing on the right page and keeping the choir and congregational music Christ honoring. She makes up the backbone of the music leadership. I just come in every Sunday and fill in the gaps. I get the easy job! :) Thanks Deb for your hard work and thanks choir for you willingness to stand up for Christ by singing every week.
Pray for our music leaders and members as we learn more about what it means to worship the Lord.
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