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Worship meetings and the importance of the heart/// Micah Powers

 My church recently had out youth discipleship weekend. The hours and days of prep in the production set up side often seemed unending. One problem after another incited frustration or distracted from purpose. An hour before the weekend started the production team, the youth pastors, the guest band and speaker, as well as other various staff gathered backstage. Will Moore (the guest speaker led the dialogue) "If there is one thing I ask of y'all for this weekend is that you would get out of the way. We know and have confidence in God's will for this revival weekend but sometimes our pride, our stress, our planning, and our prep can get in His way. So before we start discussion I would love to ask everyone to get in the preferred posture of prayer and bring all of you to the Lord privately. Pray that He would move your heart this weekend and move you as His tool do enact His will." 

we prayed over that before the meeting and then we discussed the ultimate Goal of the weekend. Although this weekend had fluff and extra ultimately we needed later like focus on the word of God and calling people to Jesus's arms. When reading on the concept of truly focusing on the biblical truth and words of worship I could not think of anything other than that weekend. It was still locked in my mind the power and way god revealed himself. Will Moore had thanked the band for their song selection was Cleary and direct from the word of God and the meditation that led their Goal was sure to open up hearts for the teaching of the message. When I think of worship in the context of my life it is always centered around refocusing my heart on God and preparing myself for his truth. My parents current church has a very different approach to worship because the put the message either at the very beginning of service or after one song and the worship following it as a "... response to the biblical truth." While I see some of the reasoning I don't so much think it is beneficial to the church both for that method. Having worship bookends (so to speak) on either end of the message allows both a preparation of the heart for the message and a response to biblical truth at the end. I know there have been plenty of Sundays where I was distanced from God and internally unhappy but that preparation time of my heart allowed my stressful and contrary mindset to fade as I bathed in the beautiful presence of God singing, "Holy Spirit, you are welcome here come flood this place and fill the atmosphere..." I know that is a bit of a tangent but related enough and definitely a valuable topic of discussion. I am curious as to others point of views related to the positioning of worship throughout the church service. 

I commented on leanne white and Jackson Riddle's blog.

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  1. Haley RiddleFebruary 9, 2021 at 9:30 AM

    My mom was a worship leader and every week she would pray about what songs to pick. The coolest thing was when the songs she chose lined up perfectly with the sermon. The most important thing as a worship leader is to pray that God works through you and that it is not about you.

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