Just a few weeks back I had the priviledge of teaching at one of our Gatherings. The Gathering is a night were the entire worship team from every ministry comes together for a night of worship, fellowship, and foodship. Inside of this event we try to accomplish a few things: a really good worship set for the worshipers by the worshipers, a really good teaching on worship, and building relationships with fellow worshipers on campus that we may or may not know.
The HTworship ministry is made up of 100+ musicians, vocalist, and techies. All the way from our 5th and 6th grade ministry, Transfer, to our 180remix youth/young adult ministry, to our “big church” worship teams. So needless to say, it’s completely necessary to come together like this for unity and teaching and fun.
On this post I’ve added the video of the lesson I taught. If you don’t want to watch me teach on worship for 15 minutes then I’ve also uploaded my notes.
I’ll ask you this question before you jump. What does worship look like, in your life, with the sound turned off?
What does worship look like with the sound turned off? from Jon Morris on Vimeo.
“songless” worship is something that is VERY close to my heart – especially as a ‘worship leader’ – even though I think that phrase is too limiting by just putting worship in sunday morning music box. I’m worried that we’re teaching this generation of Christians that if they aren’t singing like the masses on Hillsong and Passion music videos, then they aren’t worshipping.
Jon: I think you’re on to something here- challenging people to see that worship is more than a corporate wave of sound… yes yes yes. Let’s get back to the monday thru saturday real life real people real issues worship.
I love it.
Worship is/has to be so much bigger than our “sunday morning music box.”
This thought came from a huge time of reflection for me. I was looking for ministry opportunities all over the place. And missing them all over the place because I was “looking.” God want’s to do so much through us in our normal, everyday, mundane lives. He wants to use what we waste. God is more green than Al Gore. : )
That was really good. I think I’m going to explore that thought as well. “God is greener than Al Gore!”
This is one reason I am glad I’m the music director and not the worship pastor…which implies what
I do is the worship and everything else (all week) is something else. It’s not. Great teaching Jon