31 Quotes About Worship-leader

Intergenerational worship is only possible if our common ground is deference instead of preference.

Remembering the Resurrection only on Easter is like remembering your marriage only on your anniversary.

We spend so much time leading church services as an act of worship that we often neglect to lead the church in service as an act of worship too.

If we are waiting on a feeling for worship to occur, then it may never occur. Worship contingent on a musical experience that just stirs the emotions may not be worship, but instead nostalgia or novelty.

When congregations gather for worship they may be hooked on a feeling stirred by nostalgia or novelty instead of spirit and truth worship. So if those feelings are not elicited because they don’t know or don’t particularly like the songs, they can even leave the worship service believing that worship couldn’t and didn’t occur.

It doesn’t matter how good our worship is in here; it is still incomplete until it also includes how we treat our neighbors out there.

If we create worship just to accommodate our needs, then the god we worship looks a lot like us.

Worship leaders and the songs they sing can’t light a fire in us or usher us into the presence of God; the death and resurrection of Jesus already has.

If idolatry is extreme devotion to anyone or anything that isn’t God, then replacing the cross with our mothers, fathers, graduates, or the flag as the primary symbol of our worship on any given Sunday could cause us to stray into idol territory. God’s story and our response to that story transcends cultural and denominational calendars.