The Warmth of Worship

It's been a while, so I thought I would try a new post to stimulate some conversation and dialogue on our parts as lead worshipers...

Today while I was getting ready for the day a thought hit me concerning worship. I was thinking about what Louie Giglio (the head of Passion) is always saying (as he tries to unpack worship and why we do it to young adults), "Worship is our response to God." And I think there has been agreement on this point and mini-definition for all or most of us based on previous discussions at this blog (and if you are new, feel free to read back to see where we started this whole conversation).

This was my somewhat fresh thought surrounding the idea of worship and what it is and what we are actually doing when we worship God and our motivation behind it.

"Worship is not a physical connection... It is a physical response to a spiritual connection"

And by physical response I mean it's what we do to show our devotion, not necessarily singing, not necessarily bowing, raising our hands etc. but even our physical prioritization of our time, where we place Him in our daily lives. That is worship AND most importantly this physical response is based on (and here's the kicker) a 'required' spiritual connection.

So I would go so far to say that if you are "worshiping" God in song (for example), but you are not spiritually connected to God by salvation through Jesus Christ, then you are simply singing. The same can be said for our service, study of the Bible and a load of other disciplines.

The key is that it is two fold and circular. We worship mainly in a physical way, because we are physical. However, our worship is reliant on a spiritual connection to God. And the reverse can be said as well, in that when we have a spiritual connection to God, our obvious response to his greatness and fame - is to worship Him. We give our lives, our time, our attention etc. as a sacrifice, in a willing fashion b/c of His love for us (Rom. 12:1).

It's not a perfect definition, and I'm not really looking to define worship here, I was more hoping we could look at it from a different perspective and look at it with a different spin.

As always your thoughts and comments are welcome.