What an amazing discipline to study!!! That's all I have to say!! Actually, no it's not, but it should be. This discipline has been so "eye-opening" to me, both individually and from the experiences that have been shared with me of those within the body of Christ. All I can say is WOW!
This discipline is such a delicate one to target because in order to develop the discipline in our personal lives we must put our own personal celebration under a microscope and disect it and evaluate the pieces that hold it together. For me personally, what I see when I look into that microscope is a multitude of tiny particles, one that has a picture of ME, and another that has a picture of CHRIST, all connected together to look like a DNA double-helix. An erector set you might say, of what I have put together over the years to be the makeup of my celebration.
Obviously, I would hope that all of the pieces would reflect Christ in the double-helix, but the true reality of it is, no one really knows what that looks like, because our own celebration double-helix is so intertwined with our own personal experiences, and likes and dislikes of celebration. What eventually is contructed over time is really a mosaic that resembles confusion - no direction, no support, no target. True celebration in worship is the discipline of constantly pushing Christ forward in our worship partcipation and in our daily walk. You see, celebration in worship is more then our "Sunday morning" experience. It is the beginning and ending of our time with Christ. As we walk with him our worship becomes an expression of our journey with Him, sometimes to thank Him, sometimes to question Him. That is the ending. The beginning is Christ's reminder that he is journeying with us always.
Celebration with worship to me can be summarized in one word - partcipation. Christ has already taken on the task of partcipation as it relates to our personal lives, now our celebration with worship takes on the task of participation in Him, that's discipline. That discipline takes sweat and it moves us outside our comfortability into a new reality of who Christ is and what He demands of us.
There is no form or right way to worship and celebrate Jesus, but there is a right way to examine whether our celebration double-helix is "online" with who Christ is and what He has done for us. I think Isaiah 6 shares four simple truths of what we should experience in celebration - 1) The Goodness and Greatness of God; 2) The Promise of Redemption; 3) The Promise of Forgiveness; 4) The Call. Hopefully, as you examine the makeup of your own double-helix you will find it constructed with these truths.
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