June 23, 2013: Worship – Michael Hidalgo

In churches throughout the world we speak of worship, we hire worship pastors and believe that we gather together for worship. If this is the case, then why is it that so often we find that when asked about the two or three most earth shattering, significant moments in the life of a person with regard to God happen outside the context of a church service?

We hear all sorts of things: being in nature, a conversation with a friend, a concert, the birth of a child, the still small voice that shows up in silence. What happens then? We try hard to create a space where people can meet Jesus, but more often it seems we bump into him. 

Worship, then, isn’t coming in and getting out of the world to a place where God uniquely is. Worship is our growing awareness of God’s presence in all of life – seeing him everywhere. And living with awe and wonder of the God who is not just here, but there and there and there. Worship is our response to divine activity.