week 5

Week 5

“God creates missionaries by putting Himself on display, so putting Him and his glory on display must be our aim.”  Matt Papa

Worship leading seems to be one of the things that fuels and cultivates missional living.  Throughout the chapter it seems that Matt Papa is trying to communicate how infectious worship can be when it is done correctly.  As a worship leader, the responsibility is to point the spot light at God.  When we do this, missions is a natural outpouring of experiencing God.  Authentic worship as we all know is more than just singing songs.  We do this with the expectation that God is going to show up and we will experience His presence.  The more time we are in His presence the more we become like Him.  God tells of His love for His people all throughout the Bible.  It is a natural course that as our worship is more authentic, our hearts are broken for the lost.  This leads us to missional living whatever that might look like.

Honestly I have never thought about the correlation between worship leading and missions.  I have a huge passion for both, and what impacted me was connecting the dots, and seeing how worship can really affect the missions culture of a church.  I am so thankful to be a part of the Vineyard where our priority is God, and from that worship and missions happen naturally.  Sometimes I forget my own experiences with worship.  I forget that God has spoken to me really clearly during times of corporate worship.  Some of the most pivotal moments in my life have happened during worship including a time when God began to really speak to me about the role that missions would have in my own life.  While I have not yet seen God’s plan with missions in my own life play out entirely, I have a much better grasp of how worship can ignite the spark for missions in the lives of a congregation.