Square One - Issue 2, March 2010
As part of our overall Engage - Grow - Go vision we have chosen to highlight the importance of both Small Groups and Innovative Worship throughout 2010. Work is going into making our worship services fresh and engaging and we are also encouraging everyone to seek for fresh ways to engage experientially in both corporate and personal worship.
Most of us are familiar with God’s promise in Jeremiah 29:11, "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future." But we are reminded that the promise is in the context of God-seeking worship. The following verses continue, "Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back from captivity."
Innovative worship will never be a matter of a few changes; a bit of tinkering with things. At both the corporate level, in church services and small group contexts, and the personal level, in our daily relationship with God, it will always be grounded in our seeking God with “all our heart”, or it will be nothing. So, let’s not meet with each another and with God, with anything less than hearts that burn to reach out and connect with the One who, alone, is worthy of our worship.
Cliff Powell
