Do you value gathering for corporate praise and worship? Do you value the community and the unity that comes from singing praises to God with other believers? Now, here's the tough question... are you ready?
Do you value live praise and worship music played skillfully by musicians and singers who love the Lord and have consecrated their gifts, talents, and instruments to Him? And do you value joyful, exuberant, enthusiastic worship, even if it's loud (tambourines and lyres are really just drums and guitars) and people might actually (gulp) dance?!
Apparently, God does or He would not have expressed it in scripture in the form of a command. The challenge for the modern believer in a culture that elevates its own comfort and preferences over the glory of God is to set aside what we think and expect and instead embrace what scripture says about how we worship.
At The Ridge we value vertical worship. Vertical as opposed to horizontal. Vertical, meaning that our only concern is praising God in direct proportion to His greatness. Scripture says, "Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable." (Psalm 145:3) That looks like a lot of different things to a lot of different people. So don't look at people. Look at the Lord. Let your sole focus be on His greatness, and let nothing else distract you from that focus.
And don;t wait for Sunday to start. Begin now, yielding your heart to unashamed, unbridled adoration for our Savior. Here are the songs we will be singing together in our gathering this week. TOGETHER.
1. Your Grace is Enough by Chris Tomlin. (2 Corinthians 12:9)
2. Christ is Enough by Hillsong Worship. (2 Peter 1:2-3)
3. 10,000 Reasons by Rend Collective. (Colossians 3:17)
4. Anchor by Hillsong Worship. (Hebrews 6:19)
5. At The Cross (Love Ran Red) by Chris Tomlin. (Romans 5:8)
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