I was considering the other day what I would sing when I lead worship again at another church. I was reminded of a book I am currently reading, entitled “The Complete Worship Leader.” It states that the Worship leaders first duty is to point back to the Cross. This is the real purpose that we worship, and it is the reason WHY we can worship. Had Jesus not died on the cross we would not have relationship with the Father. As I thought about this, I though about the responsibility we have to be evangelistic in our praise and worship. Certainly, only the believer can worship, but one of the purposes that we give glory to God is to bring attention to him, so that those who do not know our Savior can see and want to know him, and also worship Him.
Sometimes we as believers become numb, even dead to the remembrance and constant revelation that Jesus died. For us. While we were yet sinners. We have moved on to much deeper things, and the cornerstone of our faith is forgotten. He let me know that we as the worshipping body of Christ need to be quickened, made alive again, by His spirit. We must not mistake those things that are are fundamental to our faith to be elementary in the sense that we are past that stage and it is no longer effective in our lives or necessary. The power and grace we need to live, to be Christians, to be examples in the earth, to be good mothers and fathers, is found in the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead. It is this power that we long for and search for, but we sometimes miss it because we forget the cross, the tomb, and the resurrection.
I long to search and know the deep things of God, to know Him more fully and be more intimate with Him. But I cannot forget that my worship is only possible because when he died the veil in the temple ripped, and it symbolized the Father’s desire to have communion and fellowship and intimacy with me, His daughter. But it was only because he died, and he invites those that don’t know him to this same relationship. I pray that as I lead believers to worship that I can also lead others to Christ.
So my worship can also serve as an evangelistic tool. As I remember what Christ has done for me, and praise Him for that grace, I can, at the same time, introduce Him to those that don’t know him with the same song:
I serve a risen Savior, He’s in the world today
I know that He is living, whatever men might say
I see His hand of mercy, I hear His voice of cheer,
And just the time I need Him, He’s always near.
He lives! He lives! Christ Jesus lives today
He walks with me, and talks with me along life’s narrow way
He lives! He lives! Salvation to impart…
You ask me how I know he lives…
He lives within my heart!
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