Summer 2010 Music Schedule

If you’ve read Russ’s recent blog posting you’ll hear him begin to ask questions about the emphasis we place on Sunday morning.  So much of our time and energy goes into making the Sunday worship experience a well polished, smoothly run production.  We often judge our experience and connection with a church based on what happens Sunday morning.  For us as musicians that’s even more so because we spend a lot of time preparing, rehearsing and practicing for Sunday morning.

Reading Tim Milner’s book again I’m reminded of how God is not seeking our worship.  What God wants is relationship.   Worship is only an expression of our relationship with God.  So the question is: what quality of relationship do we have if it is based only on one hour on Sunday.  We stand up for all kinds of things in Jesus’ name; we occupy ourselves so busily with “the Lord’s work”.

Psalm 46 has this amazing imagery of God putting an end to all the dizzying activity of the nations of the work.  He shouts out “STOP!”  The passage is actually “Be still, and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10).  But it’s not the peaceful comforting tone we tend to read into it.  It’s a command to put down our efforts, and take time to just be still before God.  This shouldn’t just be one Sunday morning hour.  This shouldn’t be a weekly religious routine.  Being in relationship with God, worshipping is an amazing blessing we have; to be with our Holy, awesome, creator.

Spend some time this summer being still in the presence of God.  Out of that, Sunday mornings become another opportunity to do what we’ve been caught up in doing all week.  Worship.

Pastor Lorn