That’s the name of a message I heard years ago from friend and mentor, Bob Kauflin. As a worship leader in my local church I get comments rather regularly like “that song really makes me worship” or “now that was worship” (at the end of a particularly energetic time of corporate singing) or “if you want to really wake people up, you should do this song”. Bob has challenged my thinking in these areas over the years and has helped me think more biblically about the Sunday meeting – how the ancient practice of singing praise to God connects to the larger picture of God’s purposes in the corporate gathering.
In this post, you enter a conversation that is already in progress. Bob is responding to Pastor Greg Gilbert’s thoughts on the pitfalls of over-emphasizing music in our thinking about gathered worship. Follow the links that Bob includes. The entire conversation will prove stirring and, I believe, beneficial.
