What Makes for Good Worship?

What Makes for Good Worship?

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I’ve been serving in my church’s worship team regularly for the past few months. We have five services each weekend, so I can’t help but think about the songs I’m playing on stage. I’ve found myself wondering how we on the worship team...
Music ≠ Worship

Music ≠ Worship

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In an effort to get my point across with a splash, I’m going to be hyperbolic: Singing a hymn at church is not worship. Playing guitar at small group is not worship. Humming along to a song in your car is not worship. Raising your hands on Sunday morning is not...
Worship: What’s The Point?

Worship: What’s The Point?

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I need to say at the outset that “worship” includes any reverent engagement with, or response to, the Lord. It can include acts of service, financial giving, working, eating, writing blog posts … and singing. Bob Kauflin does a fine job further...
Worship: What’s The Point?

The Cross: Crucial in Worship

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I love songs about the cross of Christ. There is no greater mystery, nothing that inspires more wonder, than the crucifixion of our Lord. It was the greatest act of both love and hate ever portrayed. It’s a manifestation of both the stratospheric height of...
Worship: What’s The Point?

“Worship” is a Transitive Verb

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What’s wrong with the following sentences? “I threw.””The boy washed.””She picked up.” What’s wrong is that the verbs are transitive verbs, and require a “direct object.” Those sentences omitted this...
Worship: What’s The Point?

Worship Music: For God or For Us?

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I honestly see worship music primarily as a gift from God to us. It’s more of a blessing to us, for our edification and joy, than an offering to God or as “spiritual warfare.” It is more about receiving from the Lord than about giving to Him. This is...
Ted Slater