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Monday, January 24, 2011
Too Close to Home?
I was shown this video a few weeks ago and then came across it again on another worship blog.
YouTube link
Before you become offended, let me just say this was put out by a church. In particular, Northpoint Church, a mega-church north of Atlanta (where I am from). Is this a parody of their own hyper-produced Sunday mornings? I don't really know. That's not really why I am sharing it.
I think the video speaks to the lack of creativity and originality we can tend to fall into in planning our Sunday morning services. How often do we try to put our church services into a neat little box? I know I've been guilty of falling into familiar patterns when planning worship sets, despite my previous series on thoughtful song selection.
As a worship leader, I long for the day when the power of the Holy Spirit is so tangibly present that we can't get through the worship set, a la 2 Chronicles 5:13-14, at the dedication of the temple:
Now, on the other end of the originality spectrum, also out of Northpoint Church, comes this:
YouTube link
So maybe they are able to break out of the box after all. But that isn't exactly what I meant.
How about you? Which of these videos is closest to your own Sunday service in terms of it's conformance to a set, safe, predictable pattern?
YouTube link
Before you become offended, let me just say this was put out by a church. In particular, Northpoint Church, a mega-church north of Atlanta (where I am from). Is this a parody of their own hyper-produced Sunday mornings? I don't really know. That's not really why I am sharing it.
I think the video speaks to the lack of creativity and originality we can tend to fall into in planning our Sunday morning services. How often do we try to put our church services into a neat little box? I know I've been guilty of falling into familiar patterns when planning worship sets, despite my previous series on thoughtful song selection.
As a worship leader, I long for the day when the power of the Holy Spirit is so tangibly present that we can't get through the worship set, a la 2 Chronicles 5:13-14, at the dedication of the temple:
Then the temple of the Lord was filled with a cloud, and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God.I want to see spontaneous healing and radical repentance take place as we worship. I want God to break us out of the little box we tend to put him in on Sunday mornings. Can it happen? I think so, if we let it.
Now, on the other end of the originality spectrum, also out of Northpoint Church, comes this:
YouTube link
So maybe they are able to break out of the box after all. But that isn't exactly what I meant.
How about you? Which of these videos is closest to your own Sunday service in terms of it's conformance to a set, safe, predictable pattern?
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