Kiki's Worship Blog

Worship and God's word are not separate entities.  They are one.  Every meeting should be characterized by the Spirit's presence and God's word.  The spirit is what inspired God's word, so we should incorporate it into our worship.  We can do this by treasuring, singing, reading, showing and praying God's word.  When we treasure God's word, other people will know it.  Lyrics matter more than the tunes, so we should understand the lyrics we are singing to convey the word more.  Lastly we should obviously read it in order to show it and pray it. Being raised as Christians, it feels sometimes that reading the word has become a chore.  When chapel speakers throw lines of verse on the screen and start reading it, I unfortunately feel my eyes glaze over, zoning out to the max.  It really shouldn't be this way, and I know it.  In order to be a true worship band, we should exude the Word too.  Read it, pray it, sing it, and show it.

Worship cannot happen without the Holy Spirit.  Worshipping without the Holy Spirit empowering the band is like the power cutting out.  We should be desperately dependent, eagerly expectant, and humbly responsive to Him.  We are helpless, and God sent the Spirit to help us, which should instill feelings of humility, gratitude, and peace in our hearts.  We should be eagerly expectant that the Spirit will come through and do great things in our worship time.  We should be humbly responsive to what He is doing.  We should not rely on our own skill and music, but rely on the Spirit.  No worship is possible without Him. What's the one thing we keep forgetting?  Oh right.  That we are worshipping God.  That shouldn't be a thing.  I know I stress about my musical skill.  I practice for hours everyday because I think I should be the one helping people draw closer to God through the music.  Wrong.  The Holy Spirit does that....

In Chapter 9 of Worship Matters, Bob Kauflin reminds us that worship is all about God, and is not possible without Him.  There is nothing about worship that is not affected or defined by Jesus Christ.  We tend to forget how offensive our sins are to God because we do it all the time.  In truth, God is perfect.  When we sin, we are defiant against Him.  Jesus is the mediator we need to be saved from God's justice.  Christ's work on the cross is the only reason why we have any access to God.  Apart from Jesus, we cannot approach God.  This makes a huge difference in our worship because biblically speaking, no worship can lead people to God, only Jesus Christ can, with his work on the cross.  Our access to God is not based on our performances, for we are already accepted through Jesus.  Our own musical skill, or even heartfelt sincerity, does not make us acceptable to God, only Jesus does.  As a kind of new drummer with not a lot of ...