Currently listening to: “Freedom is Here” by Hillsong United
I’m a very, very late comer to the worship music scene. I find that as I draw nearer to God, I can’t help but revel in worship. That, and there’s something inherently intriguing to me about songs written for the express purpose of being sung in a large-group setting. If you judge worship music purely on musical merit alone, you’re missing the point – it’s really, REALLY hard to write songs so personal (yet generally connectable) that they lend themselves to such a context. Having said all that, there’s still a lot of garbage worship records out there (and songs)… and Hillsong, as usual, evades such derision. They write good worship songs.

I’ve been working on two posts, neither of which is ready. One containing continuing thoughts on God’s will, one being the next about finances and stewardship – another of Jesus’ parables.

In the meantime, I wanted to share this post on CJ Mahaney’s blog by his friend Dave Harvey. It’s about church planting. More than that, it’s about how the church is God’s intended mission to the world. It’s about the church doing the things often left to parachurch ministries. It’s about how much can be lacking when the context of ministry is squarely outside (or alongside) the church rather than within the context of a local body of believers.

Being familiar with a great example of a church that has recently planted INTO a University campus (pray for them!), such things excite me greatly.

Check out Dave’s post here.