Worship #1

So, the latest thing going on in my head is worship, naturally, after spending a week straight exploring musical worship with over 200 high school students. I guess there is a need to explain the week as it unfolded to support my current thoughts on worship so thats where i will start.

The week at camp started as any other year, I was aprehensive at first, not really wanting to be there, out of my comfort zone which really consists of doing nothing, and i was really just not feeling the whole camp environment (over dramatic, over emotional, and really just fake), but after the first night i realized that this year was going to be different. The first night of worship started with the same thoughts of inadiquacy, unworthiness, and overall just feelings straight from the devil. But once we started playing my viewpoint started to change, i realized that these kids are here to simply worship, not to hear us play, or even to judge our musical abilities. And in that realization we began to worship ourselves. The moment that brought it all home was when i looked back at our drummer to signal the ending of a song and saw him totally immersed in the holy spirit. it was a moment that will be in my mind forever. That is the moment that we strive for, to be completely lost in the spirit, and as leaders i feel it is hard to accomplish that because we have so much more on our mind (the right key, the right melody, the right words). When worship leaders fall into worship themselves, that is when worship as a congregation is truly great.