Inspired Worship

Inspired worship is a personal and corporate encounter with the living God. Both personal and corporate worship must be infused with the presence of God. This results in times of joyous exultation and times of quiet reverence. Inspired worship is not driven by a particular style or ministry focus group. It is driven by the shared experience of God’s awesome presence. The word “inspired” means; “of extraordinary quality, as if arising from some external creative impulse.” This “external creative impulse” is the Holy Spirit. Whenever the Holy Spirit is truly at work (and His presence is not merely presumed), He will have a concrete effect upon the way a worship service is conducted including the atmosphere of the gathering. People attending truly “inspired” services typically indicate that “going to church is fun.” Knowing this, the likely source of opposition to this is Christians who go to church to fulfill their “Christian duty”. These people do not attend church because it is a joyous and inspiring experience, but to do the pastor or God a favor. Some even believe that their “faithfulness” in enduring such boring and unpleasant services will be blessed by God. Those who think this way will always tend to pressure other Christians to attend church. When worship is inspired, it draws people to the services “all by itself.”