HAPPY MONDAY!

Happy Monday to all of you! Just a few thoughts this Monday from a Mind Numbed Minister. I was reminded again this weekend of what an awesome responsibility we have as Worship Leaders. One of our main priorities as Lead Worshipers is to call God's people to Worship. David's invitation in Psalm 34:3 was "Oh magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt His name together!" Bob Kauflin in WORSHIP MATTERS said, "I want help people remember that God is bigger than their problems and joys, greater than their sorrows and successes, more significant than their tests and triumphs." As we moved from a funeral on Saturday to Worship on Sunday God continued to remind me that as we call people to Worship and Exalt Him, not everyone starts from the same place. Every week we stand before people who are pumped and ready to experience God, all they need is a down beat and their off. But in the same crowd we find those who have just experienced great loss, or a bad diagnosis from a doctor, troubled children or even something as mundane as a flat tire on the way to church. Our mission is to meet all of those people where they are and remind them of how great our God is. It seems that we have become so intent on making God personal that we have undervalued His greatness. J.I. Packer said it this way:"vast stress is laid on the thought that God is personal, but this truth is so stated as to leave the impression that God is a person of the same sort as we are-But God is not so limited. He is eternal, infinite, and almighty. He has us in His hands: we never have Him in ours. Like us He is personal: but unlike us, He is great."

As I stated at the beginning, our responsibility is awesome, but so is our privilege. What an honor it is to stand before God and His people and remind all of us that our God is an AWESOME GOD! We may change, but He does not. "Age to age He stands and time is in His hands, beginning and the end" Have a great week! I am and continue to be...
Positively His!
Robert

State of the Heart

Dear Worship Leader,

As we begin a new week I want to share some Monday Musings from a Mind numbed Minister. Even on a good Sunday, when my mind and body are both in the same time zone, Mondays are more often than not recovery days. Some Pastors I know have made the case that Jesus will come again on a Monday because the Bible says that He will come on “ A day when you think not”.

As most, if not all of you, could tell yesterday was not a great day for me. But Praise God I made it through without falling down or falling out. I write to you today not to confess how feeble I am but to testify of how faithful God is! I stumbled home last night with a new book Juan passed along to me called WORSHIP MATTERS by Bob Kauflin. I was reminded once again of how blessed I am and we are to be involved in a ministry of such eternal significance. Worship matters to God and so to be the kind of Lead Worshipers that the Father is seeking it must matter to us as well.

Worship must be more about the state of the heart than the state of the art. The great hymn-writer Issac Watts once wrote:
“The Great God values not the service of men, if the heart be not in it: The Lord sees and judges the heart;
He has no regard to outward forms of Worship, if there be no inward adoration, if no devout affection be
employed therein. It is therefore a matter of infinite importance, to have the whole heart engaged
steadfastly for God.”

Kauflin asks the question: is WORSHIP “ a matter of infinite importance to you? Unquestionably it is to God. And when it becomes a matter of infinite importance to us, we’re beginning to grasp the heart of leading Worship.”

This is the first installment of Monday Musings. Stay tuned for more…

Positively His!

Robert