Worship Matters: Right Relationships

Worship Matters: Right Relationships

Thoughts?  Comments?

Five commenters will be randomly selected at the end of this four day series.  Those selected will receive a copy of Bob's book courtesy of Crossway Books and will be featured on a follow-up post at worship.com.

Comments

[Emily]

I'm grateful for the emphasis that worship is a corporate expression. So often, I think its easy to focus on our personal worship and miss the coporate aspect.

How do we love ourselves? We think the best, don't criticize, encourage... For me, those specifics are helpful as I seek to love earnestly my fellow church members.

[Brian]

Hrm....

I didn't think I was going to get some church when I listened to this one. Excellent!

Now, I'm off to examine my own motives, and to work out better responses.

:D

[Josh Deng]

awesome again! Thanks Bob for showing us that it's more about "us" worship than "me" worship. In my environment, worship often takes a very personal feel.
Hope we can all take this to heart and generate more great worshippers!

[Justin Bruce]

As a lay person, one thing that really struck me is... am I encouraging the worship team in my own church, even when I may not particularly "enjoy" the songs, or agree with the song selections they have made. If I have suggestions, am I giving them in a way that loves my fellow brothers/sister in Christ, or am I criticizing them because "if I knew how to sing, I would do it this way!" Thank you Bob for your insights, and call for humility.

[silvervknight]

Having the right attitude is difficult. The question Pastor Bob asks regarding the attitude to respond to a pastor's suggestion hit the spot for me. From time to time, I would ask my pastor if there's any improvement he can think of. It's funny. I thought I was being humble by seeking improvement. But when he does respond with suggestions, my mind starts building defense walls: But I can't..., Well, it doesn't seem to me that..., I'm already trying my best..., and on and on goes my excuses. Even though I didn't voice them out loud, I realized I didn't really come to my pastor with the right attitude.

It's really hinges on what Pastor Bob says about loving others as I love myself. I do find myself confused at how to love other people. The point "to think the best intent of others" really strike out to me. Do I really believe that this person comes to me with this criticism because he/she wants to edify the praise team and me? Often I catch myself doubting his/her intent rather than respecting it and treating it as an exhortation from the Spirit. Thanks for the reminder Pastor Bob!

[Joel Lee]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The love that Bob has for God and his passion to put Him as #1, above all other things, is contagious. Just hearing him talk about the true ways of worship fills me with a desire to do the same.

Bob seems to really have an understanding of what it means to be a worship leader: to be an example of what it means to be a true believer in Christ. God has really used him in affecting me, in helping me to have a growing passion for the Lord and His ways.

Thank you so much for these video clips.

[Richard Owen]

I am so thankful for the message(s) of Bob's book which have been highlighted in this video series. Great stuff! -- God glorifying and edifying in many practical ways for His saints. My prayer (right now) is that it will used by God to help many churches. My copy shipped the other day and I can't wait to read it!

[Craig T.]

Thanks for sharing these videos with us. I think it's important to be reminded of some of these vital thoughts. A lot of what is said is not new so much, at least to me, as it is said again to pull us (me) out of the "mundane" and rountine. Thanks so much for the refocus!

[Brance]

I wish all leadership in the church would manifest this kind of humility and servant spirit. If the pastors/elders, worship leader, youth pastor, sunday school teachers, children's education coordinator, etc. would all express this kind of love for each other and the people we serve, 'church' would be a very different place.

Jesus not only gave us this command to love as the second greatest command, he also said it reflected the first in such a way that people would know we observed the first command, if they saw us obeying the second.

"By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." (John 13:35)