Passionate Worship

This Sunday Skip (the senior pastor at FUMC Killeen for those who are not Killeeners) preached eloquently about passionate worship.  Then Sunday evening I witnessed it:

The youth of this church are truly teach me (teaching us) what it means to devote their hearts to God and like Psalm 150 says, Praise the LORD (Yahweh)! What is it about us adults that makes us hesitate to let go and worship God with our whole being? Why do we hold back and not commit ourselves to the moment in worship?  It is within us:

Video from 2010 World Cup after Landon Donovan's goal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbn3rOPmR9w


Video from the other night, Texas Ranger defeat Oakland As (I was on the phone with a friend when this happened and I was in the same room with Sophie.  It was all I could to keep from jumping up and down :) )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YL81dSj8s4

in these videos we see that adults have no problem exhibiting their passion for sports...but for some reason we are so restraining in worship.  And I don't believe that passionate worship means for each of  us to be jumping up and down and dancing down the isles in church.  Passionate worship can be on your knees, heart broken before God.  It can be sitting down, it can be standing up.  It can be traditional, it can be contemporary and it can be emergent.  Passionate worship is when our heart is in tune with God's melody and something sacred happens.  We need to get past ourselves and let go.  When we devote that time, that sacred hour to God (and it is the most important hour of the week) the rest of the life of a disciple falls into place.  We will be inspired to have a close relationship with God through Christ.  We will love our neighbor more and we will be co-conspirators with God in the transformation of the world.  It starts with me and its starts with you.  Who is with me?!

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