Audience of One

To open this new blog, I’d like to express, for the whole worship team, our thanks to everyone at Mill Creek Bible Church. Every week you allow us to stand before you and lead you in worship. It’s a serious and a humbling undertaking. Thank you. We appreciate the prayers, encouragement and support you give us.

I thought it would be a good idea to start off this blog with laying down a foundation, if you will. We have many new people attending our services who may not know much about what we do and why. We have many long time members who may need a “refresher” on this concept.
It’s very easy to fall into the routine of seeing a band in front of a crowd of people and assuming that you are there to be entertained. That you are a spectator, not a participant. This couldn’t be further from the truth. In our times of worship, we as the worship leaders are there to get you started and to provide the background for our corporate and your personal praise and worship. In our times of worship there should be no separation between the band and the congregation.
We are to be one band, one voice with an audience of One.
There is only one worthy of praise and worship and it is to Him, our God, our Creator, our Savior, our King that we join together to lift up.

I don’t believe our Audience is of the same mind of an “earthly” audience. While excellence is His standard and we are to strive to offer the best we have, I believe He is much less interested in a “good show” and much more interested in heart-felt expressions of our thankfulness and love. What parent isn’t moved by the sincere gift from their child’s heart? Many times, it’s not the gifts that cost the most money that people cherish but the gifts that reveal the heart of the giver.
I pray that our gifts, our offerings of praise and worship as one voice given to our Father, be cherished due to the heart from which they are given.