He Saved Us To Show His Glory - Part 1
[This is part 1 of an article I wrote several years ago. I thought you might find it relevant today ...]
This is a story about my church worship team and how we've taken worship outside our church walls and to the nations. This is a very passionate subject for me. But before I tell our story, I want to touch on an important value behind every worship adventure we've ever taken — it's worship evangelism.
Have you ever had such an awesome worship experience that you felt like you just didn't know what to do with yourself? I mean, you just couldn't hop any higher, sing any louder, kneel any longer, or cry and laugh any harder! Through God's amazing grace, I have been in many indescribable worship situations that were so awesome that after awhile, I thought I was just going to explode. Well, guess what? That's where worship evangelism comes in. It's time to invite others to the party!
One of the most important kingdom principles in the Bible is, "freely you have received, freely give." God is not blessing you to reach some unattainable spiritual high that all those rookie worshipers can't get to. He's blessing you so you can be a blessing and show non-believers what they were created for. Therefore, if you feel like you're starting to become a connoisseur of worship, let me recommend that you start seeking ways to share your worship experience with others. Have we forgotten that the presence of God is what the world is looking for? Lost people are destroying their lives and doing every kind of insane, unimaginable thing — just to have a sense of oneness with their Creator. We should be introducing them to their eternal destiny!
Way back in the last century, around 1997, my brother Dale Walker, who is a pastor and missionary, talked me into taking my worship team with him to the Philippines. I had always had a heart for missions, but never really thought about taking my church worship team to a third-world country so far away. God led us to hold worship evangelism crusades. We put together local choirs with as much church involvement as possible and basically took the presence of God to lost, poor people. Our goal was to be in situations where there would be approximately half believers and half non-believers. When this happens, the non-believers get to see, through their "own people," what they were ultimately created for: to worship the one true God!
Since then, the "C. A. Worship Band" and I have traveled to many different Asian countries as well as Central America. We've seen hundreds of people saved, local worship team members instructed and encouraged, and hundreds of hungry children fed. I've said all of this and I haven't even gotten to the reason why I'm writing this article...
... to be continued ...
This is a story about my church worship team and how we've taken worship outside our church walls and to the nations. This is a very passionate subject for me. But before I tell our story, I want to touch on an important value behind every worship adventure we've ever taken — it's worship evangelism.
Have you ever had such an awesome worship experience that you felt like you just didn't know what to do with yourself? I mean, you just couldn't hop any higher, sing any louder, kneel any longer, or cry and laugh any harder! Through God's amazing grace, I have been in many indescribable worship situations that were so awesome that after awhile, I thought I was just going to explode. Well, guess what? That's where worship evangelism comes in. It's time to invite others to the party!
One of the most important kingdom principles in the Bible is, "freely you have received, freely give." God is not blessing you to reach some unattainable spiritual high that all those rookie worshipers can't get to. He's blessing you so you can be a blessing and show non-believers what they were created for. Therefore, if you feel like you're starting to become a connoisseur of worship, let me recommend that you start seeking ways to share your worship experience with others. Have we forgotten that the presence of God is what the world is looking for? Lost people are destroying their lives and doing every kind of insane, unimaginable thing — just to have a sense of oneness with their Creator. We should be introducing them to their eternal destiny!
Way back in the last century, around 1997, my brother Dale Walker, who is a pastor and missionary, talked me into taking my worship team with him to the Philippines. I had always had a heart for missions, but never really thought about taking my church worship team to a third-world country so far away. God led us to hold worship evangelism crusades. We put together local choirs with as much church involvement as possible and basically took the presence of God to lost, poor people. Our goal was to be in situations where there would be approximately half believers and half non-believers. When this happens, the non-believers get to see, through their "own people," what they were ultimately created for: to worship the one true God!
Since then, the "C. A. Worship Band" and I have traveled to many different Asian countries as well as Central America. We've seen hundreds of people saved, local worship team members instructed and encouraged, and hundreds of hungry children fed. I've said all of this and I haven't even gotten to the reason why I'm writing this article...
... to be continued ...
posted by Tommy Walker at
4:55 PM
