Praise and Worship

I have to comment on Praise and Worship.  Granted, worship is a daily lifestyle, not just singing songs, but this blog post will be about songs :)

I'm not a big fan of hymns, I'll say that right now.  I grew up with the worship pastor saying "Turn to Hymn 3000" and stuff like that.  Now, they're poetic and worded very well, but I need a beat.  I heard a song on the WOW Gold CD called "Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music?" and I agree.  I say if Disturbed converted and played their same genre of music w/ a Christ-centered message I'd know I'd reached Heaven LoL.  I also pray Eminem converts and joins the 116 Clique.  I pray with faith these things can happen.

In high school, even when I ran from God my Junior year, I went to the church for youth praise and worship every Sunday night.  Acoustic and candle-lit.  It was an amazing, worshipful atmosphere.  Now, I can't sing to save my life.  I won't be winning any Grammys in my lifetime.  Still, I make a noise that God considers joyful because I'm worshiping Him.  When I got to college and stopped going to church, I missed out on corporate worship.  I got into Kutless and listened to Christian music interspersed with secular music.  I was involved with Team United, the UGA Athletics ministry, and they had guest singers that were good.  After college I tried different churches, and the praise and worship led me to Athens Church.  I picked Athens Church because I liked the music a lot.  Sure, they played some secular or 'crossover' songs, but I really liked the premise of the church.  "To Lead People Into A Growing Relationship With Jesus Christ".  They brought me back into corporate worship and I grew into WFBC.  The AC pastor was happy that I was going to WFBC because I was growing.  I love pastors who aren't jealous for attendance.  WFBC's worship team is A-Mazing!  I love that I was able to be a part of their Watkinsville Worship CD :)  We even sang hymns at Fight Club, just us guys, which was great too.  The WFBC youth worship team is amazing.  At Camp Icthus we just have one man w/ a guitar and he leads us into God's throne room every day.  I love it all!

I wish non-believers would just sit in on a worship session at WFBC and see.  Ray Boltz (sad) said "You can sing about love, but there is no greater Love.  You can sing about passion, but there is no greater Passion..."  Mankind sings about love, sex, money, drugs, loss, heartache, etc. but the outpouring of song to the Creator is by far the most beautiful.  Vocal praise and worship cements me in the faith every time I participate in it.  We'll spend eternity singing God's praises as well.  "Revelation Song" and "From the Inside Out" make me tear up every time I sing them as well.

I could say more, but I just wanted to state something.

For the Kingdom,
Stuart