34 Quotes About Worship-leading

Comparing our worship to the worship of another congregation means we are trying to measure up to a standard God has called them to, not the one God has called us to.

Worship is always easier when things are going our way, when we have a job, a healthy family, a lovely home, and financial security. But what about when the daily events of life threaten to consume us? If worship is continuous, why wouldn’t you also worship then?

Worship doesn’t invite God’s presence; it acknowledges it. God has called us out of darkness into God’s amazing light that we may speak of God’s wonderful acts (1 Pet 2:9). The Father is looking for those who worship him in spirit and truth (John 4:23). God initiates, and we respond.

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.

A balanced approach to worship evaluation can be summative in that a congregation can learn from its previous worship failures and successes. But it can also be formative since it occurs during the development and conceptual worship service stages.

When an intentional and collaborative process of weekly worship evaluation is implemented, the reality is that you as leaders will no longer receive all of the credit for worship successes. But fortunately, you won’t receive all of the credit for worship failures either.

If we never involve our congregants as more than casual bystanders while we read, speak, sing, play, pray, testify, lead, mediate, commune, baptize, con- fess, thank, petition, and exhort, then how can we expect them to transform from passive spectators to active participators? Aren’t we really creating worship tourists who select their destination based solely on their impression of the platform tour guide and excursion offered rather than worship travelers on a continuous journey?