Is there a wrong or right way to worship?

So, I have been working at LifePointe Christian for about a month now and I am finally getting into the groove of being a lead worshipper again. Before LifePointe, I was just a guy in the worship band playing a bunch of instruments and I loved it. I didn't lead worship very much and I kind of lost the skill of leading people to approach the thrown of God. I was thinking the other day that people don't have sing to worship or raise their hands to worship. I can admit seeing people cry,lift their hands, and clap made used to feel like that I am doing an awesome job leading people. It's really not about how I play or sing. People still worship when the guitar player screws up a lead part. Its more about the message of the song and how it touches peoples lives. The song strikes a nerve in someones heart to worship. Now, when I see people just stare with their arms crossed, it doesn't make me feel like the music sucks. I just assume that they are taking it all in and thinking about the lyrics of the songs. I dunno. Is there a wrong or right posture to worship? No, I don't think so. In the Old Testament, there are many examples of people falling face down to worship. These Hebrew words below describe the different posture used to worship.

Barak: To worship the Lord by kneeling or bowing; to humbly recognize God
as the origin of all power, success, or victory.
Psalm 95:6 O Come, let us worship and bow down: Let us Barak before the
Lord our Maker.
Shachah: To worship by falling down, bowing, or prostrating your self.

I am not saying everyone has to fall face down but it makes me think if I would really do that around a bunch of people I don't know. Hmmmm. I dunno.

Worship Set for August 3rd

Man was I tired last Sunday. I am still recovering after a week of camp. My voice is really horse too. I sound like I have been smoking a pack a day for 10 plus years. Anyway, this last Sunday's worship set was pretty good. I broke at the normal songs.

Here are the songs:

1. Your Grace is Enough by Chris Tomlin and Matt Maher
2. I am Free by Delirious
3. Center by Charlie Hall
4. I will Hold On by the Vineyard group (??)

Pretty Basic Sunday.

Gone Maria has been on tour

Sorry guys if I haven't blogged in awhile. My band Gone Maria was on tour last week. I was to busy playing youth camps and signing little girls arms with a sharpie marker. I wonder if they know they are permanent. Anyway, yeah I was playing for this youth camp in the big city of Hillsboro, OH. The camp was very conservative and republican. I think you had to bring your voters registration card before you entered the camp grounds which was called "Restoration Acres". Everyone was very nice and the kids loved the energy of Gone Maria. There were two girls that were 11 and 12 that were obsessed with Matt Nelson, the bass player. I think his wicked bass solos put them in a trance. The rest of the band was made up of Duane Chew on electric guitar, Ben McGue on the drums and myself as the lead man/guitar player. I thank Duane Chew for flying all the way up to Knoxville from FL to be on that tour. It was well worth it because we got a lot of free publicity being on the FRONT PAGE OF THE Times Gazette. We signed a couple copies and auctioned off a signed paper for 25 dollars to a youth group kid. Thanks kid. Really we did auction off the paper.

Well, here are some picks of our adventure. By the way there is massive amounts of sarcasm in the article above if you don't know me then I am sorry.

7-20 Worship Gathering

Pre-Service:

1. O Worship the King (Hymn)
2. Marvelous Light (Charlie Hall)
3. I will Trust in You (Jeremy Camp)
4. Jesus Paid it All (Hymn)

This week was a good week a LifePointe. The band did awesome and the hymns were accepted pretty well. Introducing hymns is a new thing at Lifepointe. Anyway here are the songs for this week.

To DC and back

So, here are some pics from my trip in DC. Yes, that is Bob Dole. I told you all I met him.

Later

Top 6 things I have done ove the past couple weeks.

I know it seems that I have fallen off the face of the earth. Well, thats not totally true. I also know that I have been promising forever that I would catch up to the world of blogging. I am about to start another blog to keep all of my supporters up-to-date on my ministry at LifePointe. I don't know how I am going to juggle between two blogs. Well, I guess I can since I juggled between 4 fantasy football teams and I won 2 out of 4. Yeah, NICE !!! Anyway, I thought I would make a top ten, things I have done over the past couple weeks, rather than write a ridicoulously long blog to catch you all up. In other words, I am just lazy and I don't care what you think. I am just kidding. Thanks and enjoy. Oh, feel free to drop a line. I would like to know if you all exist too.

TOP 6 Events from June 27th till now

1. Meet Senator Bob Dole at the World War II memorial in Washington DC
- I have the picture to prove it
2. Not get second hand smoke from a Dave Matthews Concert in DC

3. Eat at the cheese cake factory twice in one week

4. Not get a new iPhone but I got a new BlackBerry (even though I am a MAC user)

5. Hanging out with old friends Nate and Emilee a lot

6. Watch fireworks at the Knights Baseball stadium

Sorry I couldn't think of 10 exciting things. I live a boring life.

7.6 Worship Set

Here is this weeks worship set at LifePointe.

1. Enough by Chris Tomlin
2. You Said by Rueben Morgan
3. How Great is Our God by Chris Tomlin
4. Here I am to Worship (bridge and chorus only)

This weeks set was pretty short and because of the July weekend all of the band was out of town. So, that means it was acoustic Sunday. It was just 2 acoustics and a chic (my wife). It was really intimate worship set and not because my wife was standing next to me either. I guess you could say that I brought it old school too because most of those songs are 5 years and older. Thats ok.