WHERE I WORSHIP

I was challenged by a blog last week. As a person who ministers to youth, the challenge was laid out by a person with the same calling as he questioned "big" ministries. One of the questions he posed was "What happens when the kids of your ministry grow up move to another church that is 'technologically retarded', will they be able to worship?" It is a good question. But to me worship is not about computers, screens, projectors, bands, themes or even sermons. Worship is giving something worth. Granted, singing will open your heart to God. It can bring you to a place where you are able to listen without distraction. Videos and messages may teach me God's word or the history of a passage. But as I grow and try to give God all of me, by confessing and asking God to show me my sin, repenting and walking in the spirit, I have learned that worship happens when I leave the church service. It is there, in the living of life in a world that is set against my God and his ways, that I learn what I give worth. What I value most. Is it stuff of the world or love and calling of my shepherd? There are no bands, or videos there. Just me and my God who I value most, walking together. That is worship, bowing to your king, no matter where you are.