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An old school piano with forty or fifty people; a few years later it’s a rockin’ band with three guitars, a drum kit and a whole lot more people. That’s part of my story as a pastor. The million dollar question in response to that story is, at what point did we have “good worship?” If you are like me, you hear a lot people shopping for a church home say something to the effect that one church they visited had “good worship” while another church they visited did not have “good worship.” When statements like this are made, it seems as though a lot people are talking about music styles.

As a pastor I believe we eventually had good worship in 2005, at a point when one third of our active members were involved in a multi day mission project at various places around the world. In Psalm 95 and 96, the Psalmist cries out that we “sing to the Lord, bless His name, make a joyful noise, bow down, kneel before the God our maker, sing a new song…” but then also in this context we are called to “Declare his glory among the nations,” we are to, “say among the nations, the Lord reigns!” Read the rest of this entry »