have you ever heard that saying? Maybe it’s a Georgia thang. It means that if I got to choose my preference, my way…if I could pick, this is what I’d do.
While I find my attention drawn to a pretty diverse and wide-flung set of attractions/passions, there’s a part of me that always comes back to leading people in worship. It’s been part of the way I lead and pastor people, part of the way I teach and shape their hearts for as long as I have been in ministry.
Lately God has been bringing some wild-eyed and wondrous worshipers into my life. There’s a buzz in the air, and a freshness to faith. I’m starting to hear these young men and women talking about Jesus in a way that’s captivating. They’re getting together to pray and seek God’s face, to sing unscripted, unbridled, uncharted songs. It’s not neat or clean or polished. But it’s good. It’s real. It’s authentic and inspiring and life-giving.
Worship flows from hearts touched by the love of God. Worship is the response of a heart that has been forgiven, redeemed, transformed.
I’m hopeful that new songs will come out of this–songs that express what God is doing here and now, songs that capture the essence of a movement of God, songs for us, by us.
I don’t know that anything we write or sing will have lasting power, but I believe that there are songs in my heart that need to be sung. They may not be the masterpieces of Lennon-McCartney (dadgum creative geniuses), but they’ll be real. They’ll be mine. And that’s something…
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