Public Worship vs. Private Devotion
This week’s worship training tip has to do with value #2: credibility – leading with integrity.
Big idea: Never let your public worship exceed your private worship.
At my first Passion event years ago, I hear Beth Moore say that she never wanted her public worship to exceed her private worship. She said that it is very easy to get excited about worship when others are around to see, but are we as excited when the only one noticing our worship is God? She stated that sometimes she has such rich worship in our home that she has to close the blinds so the neighbors don’t call the police on her.
Here’s my questions for worship teams this week:
- Have you spent as much time in private worship this week that you have in public worship?
- Do you pray more on stage or in groups than you do in private?
- Do you read more Scripture in church settings than you do on your own?
- Would people see more exuberance in the way you sing songs on a stage or the way you wash dishes at home?
I love corporate worship, but I also think there is something special about when we do something that only God sees. There is geniuness there.
Here’s the challenge: have a worship service this week in which the only two people are there are you and God. You don’t have to learn guitar or piano to lead it, you just take God’s Word, and proclaim your love to Him.
Spend some time in worship this week with only God around before you lead others in worship.
Its true, beloved. Beth Moore is gracing Greenwood. If you are a woman at North Side, you need to plan to come. If you are a woman at another church, you need to bring your women’s ministry and partner with your sister church. If you are a woman but don’t go to church anywhere, you need to come – Beth brings it and has a special way of encouraging women. If you are a man, don’t come but send a lady that you know as a special gift.
