It’s been a little while, but I want to get back to looking at The 7 Steps to Worship Renewal – a conglomeration article in the July/August issue of Worship Leader magazine. In this section, written by Steve Fee – national recording artist with the band, Fee, and worship Leader at North Point Community Church in Atlanta – we look at the leadership’s role in worship renewal. Steve writes:
“Worship renewal. We long for it. We wait for it. And we pray for it knowing that is comes initially from an outpouring of the Spirit of God. We don’t manufacture it. But as leaders and teachers of worship, we play a role in the process of encouraging our people towards worship renewal.”
But what is the leader’s role? Steve puts forth these thoughts:
- Begin with personal worship renewal. Ask God for a renewed sense of reverence and awe to ignite within you – and then lead others to that place.
- Lead through teaching worship as a response to events unfolding in our local community. Things that happen in our city or our congregation effect our worship…and need to be a part of that worship.
- Lead through teaching worship as a response to what’s happening worldwide. Steve tells of leading a Tuesday night bible study on one particular week in 2001 – September 11, 2001 to be exact. In the midst of faces asking “So, what now?” the teaching leader was able to say that the only correct response to anything in life is to worship.
When those of us in leadership are passionate about our worship renewal need to let that spill over to the people we’re entrusted to lead. That’s been one of my goals in writing this series. And my challenge is this: Can you take this to heart? “The only correct response to anything in life is to worship Jesus.”
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