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When is it Worship?

  • January
  • 24

6:00 am Christian living

Recently I heard a story about a large church which fired the worship team because it wasn’t “professional” enough. 

Instead, the church employed professional musicians to play at the Sunday services.  I was flabbergasted!  Although the quality of the music may have improved dramatically, if it wasn’t led by Christians, I doubt that it could truly have been called “worship”.

So what IS worship?  Lately I have been challenged to re-examine its meaning and role in my life.  Perhaps like me, you have been limiting “worship” to singing in the Sunday morning service, or perhaps during your own personal prayer time.

One Christian author, Cheryl Forbes, defines worship as “a service of praise and adoration” and that acts of worship may range from singing hymns, to doing our best at our studies, housework, job …  kinda reminds me of Colossians 3:23 (NIV) – Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.

Whatever you do … If worship is whatever I do with my whole heart, as unto the Lord, then I am not just worshipping when I sing in church, or even when I am ministering to other women through writing or preaching. It is when I am pegging out the washing, cleaning the toilet, doing the grocery shopping, paying a bill, preparing agenda or minutes at work, or phoning a friend!

Today I challenge you to explore the wider meaning of the word “worship”! Are you living life to the utmost, for the glory of God?    

“Even flinging fries at McDonald’s can be an act of worship if we’re doing it for the glory of God” – Greg Laurie



1 comment

That’s terrible. The money they spent on hiring musicians would have been better spent providing a service in their local community. Isn’t that what the tithes and offerings are given for? To further the work of God’s kingdom? Unless there was something else going on there that we’re not privy to.

I love to sing and worship and I’ve been blessed with a singing voice. I know not everyone has but when I am out the front leading the worship I see so much joy on the people’s faces and love seeing them being involved in the worship. That blesses me and the rest of the worship team.

But, as you say, worship isn’t just in the singing on Sunday mornings. It’s in our other activities and there are so many other things I do and thank God for those opportunities. Worship is a daily thing, not a once a week thing.
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