Ephesians 5:1-2
So Ashley came to me about a month ago and wanted to share a night of creative worship and hopefuly expose us to some new ideas about what it means to worship God, and how we do that. How we express our worship. So the idea for "Fresh Fragrance" was born. The idea here again is not so much that we are trying to do something new, as that we are trying to create an environment where the possibility of something new exists. Maybe you've never thought about using play dough as an expression of worship to God. Maybe you've never really danced before God. Maybe you'd like to try.
I had the opportunity to attend a worship training conference in Laurel a couple of weeks ago with a few of the worship team crew, and there was a great session there about creativity in worship. The session was led by Michael Gungor. (BTW, if you havn't heard me tell you about getting his album "Ancient Skies", you need to stop reading this post and go buy it. It is easily my favorite album that I am listening to right now.)
Anyway, there were some really great ideas there, but one of the things that he talked about was how all creative expression is just a reordering of creation. This is an idea that I have seen in many places, that all artistic expression is just our own way of trying to share the beauty of what God has already created. The point is that maybe creativity in and of itself is worship, in that it reflects the goodness and character of our creator. The other point that he made was that each church body is unique, because its expression of worship as a group is uniquely created by the personalities that reside in it. There cannot be any other group or individual that can create the same expression of worship as we can. This was something that was clearly demonstrated at "Fresh Fragrance", when you looked around and saw what we had created. Our worship to the Lord was a unique expression of creativity.
I can't wait for Friday night, when we get to try this little experiment again. I hope that you will come. But more importantly I hope that you will come with a blank slate and let God motivate you to create an expression of worship that you may not have expected.
Amazed by Him,
W2
