Comments on: What Are We Teaching About Worship?

By: henryjz

henryjz — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:29:48 +0000

I hear what you are saying about worship being individually transformative, but don’t you think we have to also consider the corporate aspect of worship as well. Worship is both a personal and corporate thing, don’t you think?

By: kidzministryonline

kidzministryonline — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:07:01 +0000

Worship is a response, birthed out of a healthy perspective as to who God is. We worship when we recognize God for he is, use what he has given and live as he designed us. Ultimately we worship when we make God the most important thing in our lives, no matter where we are.
If we can get children to lift there hearts to God on a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday it will transform what happens on a Sunday.
When we teach children about worship, we recognize it as a long term strategy. We teach our children about who they are worshipping and why they are worshipping, how they choose to worship then become their responsibility and personal to their relationship with Christ.
I think we focus too much on what happens corporately when our real focus should be what happens personally.

By: steve

steve — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:41:21 +0000

The song is basically a remake of the a song by the group Dead or Alive from the mid '80s. From what I can tell of the lyrics, they have replaced the word "baby" with the word "Jesus". That does not make it worship as far as I am concerned.

We must give them the benefit of the doubt as far as intent is concerned. But I would question the judgment.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:21:55 +0000

You make good points. I'm sure the worship leader has great intentions, but I do think that lyrically lacking by pulling the focus on the worshipper instead of the one worshipping. Worship has to push the focus outward towards God. Sadly the America's have suffered for far too long with the me worship. Once we get the lyric idea on track, then we can worry about the music.

By: jabberfrog

jabberfrog — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:14:18 +0000

Great question. I, too, ask the same question as it relates to the singing segments of our elementary worship experience. One of our goals in our mid-hi experience is to transition the students from songs with dance moves (elementary experience) to songs with no orchestration at all (mid-hi experience). The dance moves in the elementary experience serve a variety of purpose that I support. ____1. They define acceptable movement for our youngest in the room. (i.e. jumping vs running)__2. They get kids up and moving to get the 'wiggles' out__3. They introduce potential worship postures (i.e. raising of hands, kneeling, etc) However, I own that these movements mean nothing if they are self-focused and not God-focused__If we can help our elementary kids transition from focusing on the moves to focusing solely on God then when they reach the mid-hi experience, worship songs without orchestration shouldn't be a difficult thing. Rather kids respond to these segments in their own personal worshipful way. ____A 'Love Train'… really? I won't go there.