END NOTE:
A concluding
thought on the concept of worship in our gatherings:
The term “worship
leader” is, I think, unfortunate. It reinforces the view that worship only occurs,
or primarily occurs, during the musical portion of our gatherings. This is not
good thinking or modeling; it sends the wrong message and conditions people to think
in a way that is harmful.
Anyone who
stands before a congregation is a worship leader, for we gather to worship and
our focus is first on God and then on one another in Him. We gather in the
Presence of Jesus Christ, the Lamb. Therefore, we should really have worship
leaders throughout our gatherings, a collective group of men and women who lead
us throughout our gatherings in worship.
Ministers of
music? Yes.
Worship leaders,
in the sense we’ve been using the term? No.
How we think
about these things matters. Words form our thoughts and mold our souls and inform
our actions.
Worship is to be
our Way of Life in Jesus Christ.
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