12 Witnesses

[Note: I'll be blogging the Tulsa Metro Association (The World's Most Missional Association) Annual Meeting on Wednesday and Thursday. It is not a LIVE blog (does that make it dead blogging?) but it will be fairly extensive. I will not blog the reports in detail. You're welcome. I will blog the interaction with Frank Page and Milfred Minatrea. There is some pretty good stuff there. See you back here tomorrow for the details.]

Never forget that several folks continue to blog the disciplines, and you cna find the full set of really good stuff at Words Are Not Enough: Live From New Orleans, the blog of Joe Kennedy.

Worship.

I really don’t know where to start. Worship has been a subject of tremendous study and growth for me. As a result, there is more than I can say than you will read on a blog.

The root of the word is wrapped up in “worth” or “value.” I have heard that the etymology of the word is “worthschype” in “ye olde english,” which is to say, that to which you give worth, or value.

We were created to value God. If we don’t give God the ultimate value in our lives, we will merely substitute something else into that place of priority. In short, we are always worshiping. The question is whether or not we are committing idolatry or worshiping the Father in Spirit and Truth.

One of the most important thing any child of God can do within the context of their walk with God is evaluate what it is they are centering their life on; what it is they are worshiping.

That is an introspective side of worship.

The other great extrapolation of the truth that we were made to worship God is that when we do that, we fulfill our designed purpose. We will always be out of joint and uncomfortable with ourselves when we fail to fulfill our designed purpose.

On the flip side, we will always have a sense of comfort and being “at home” when we do fulfill our designed purpose. The world may be chaotic, we may be in pain or we may be on top of the world, but valuing God at His appropriate worth will bring us to the point of peace and give us the appropriate perspective.

We are never to low when we realize that God is in control and has not and will not leave us - we are not alone. We are never to high when we realize that every good and perfect gift comes from the Father, and that we are not responsible for creating our own blessings. Worship affords that perspective.

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