Are you insulting God in worship?

      In this article by Sam Storms, we focus on keeping our priorities straight in worship, and sam focuses on the simple word "for". Storms explains that even though it is a simple word, it means a lot. We need to make sure we are worshiping for worship, not for performance. We need to be careful with our words and our attitude. We need to be careful with our wording, God does not need our worship, but we need him.

      One of my favorite things storm says in the article is that God does not need us. I remember that this is similar to a message I heard when we were at hume last winter. When we are serving and worshipping our God, we are doing a good thing, but at the end of the day, we aren't doing much compared to what he does for us. The speaker talked about a time when he was washing his car with his children, and they were using toothbrushes to help him. They weren't doing much, but their father was happy with their help, just like how God sees us. No matter what we do for him, God loves us.

Get off the platform

       The basic topic of the article is about keeping our minds focused on performing for God, rather than for ourselves. People in worship often fixate on "gaining a platform", which is definitely not where our minds should be. When we focus on the wrong motives, we become toxic for our band, we would do more hurt than help. The article talks about how we could use the platform to promote our faith and transfer it to others.

          I really liked this article because I know that putting ourselves on a platform can be something that is easy to do. We can use our class time to talk and reflect about how to avoid this in our worship. I often find myself thinking more about performing than about worshipping. Although our performance is really important, it is more important to worship God. If we have him on our mind first, he will work to make the worship effective.