The 30 Day Worship Journey

So, here's part two - a challenge in biblical worship.

One of the things Louie Giglio talks about in his book, The Air I Breathe, has to do with taking a 30 Day Worship Journey.  Giglio encourages the reader to carve out time each day for a month and meditate on one of the attributes of God.  Then carry that attribute with you all day, continuing to meditate on it as you go through the day.

I'd like to modify that and challenge you to a slightly different journey, but one that is certainly consistent with Giglio's book.  I encourage you to spend the next 30 days looking for areas of your life where you can demonstrate biblical worship.

Now, the Bible is clear - God wants us to do everything as an act of worship to Him.  In fact, as Giglio and other writers tell us, we are to live lifestyles of worship.  But I believe that all of us probably have some areas of our day or lives that we haven't fully surrendered to Him.  We have to get to the point where we realize that we are called to do EVERYTHING as an act of worship to God.

Think about it - not just when we're at church, but also:  work, home, school, grocery store, exercising, sports, playing with play dough, you name it.  Worship is a 24 hours a day, 7 days as week deal.  There's nothing it doesn't touch and affect.

So, the challenge is - get you something to write in, like a journal, notebook, napkin, or whatever.  Start each day writing down a couple areas of your life, or specific things you're planning to do that day, and pray to God for His help in doing those things as an act of worship to Him.  Keep praying through it all day.  At the end of the day, go back to your journal or whatever and write down how it went, what you learned, how you will improve, etc.  Then the next day, start again, but don't forget what you've already done previously.  The idea isn't to do something as worship today, then go back to your old ways in that area tomorrow.  Use this as an opportunity to grow and apply biblical worship in all of your life.

If you decide to take this challenge, feel free to contact me if I can help you (pastor_randy@nc.rr.com).  Maybe it's just to pray for you as you do this.  Maybe it's to support you with the Scriptures.  Whatever it is, I'm glad to help.  God demands worship from His followers.  It's time we do what it takes, in His strength, to obey.

Pastor Randy

The Air I Breathe

I've just finished a book by one of my favorite authors on worship, Louie Giglio.  The book is called, The Air I Breathe, and it's a great down-to-earth resource on what biblical worship is all about.  I'd like to share some of the parts I outlined and then issue you a challenge based on it.

First, some of the sound bytes.  In the next post, I'll give you the challenge.


You cannot help but worship something.  It's what you were made to do.

Worship is our response to what we value most.

So how do you know where and what you worship?  It's easy.  You simply follow the trail of your time, your affection, your energy, your money, and your loyalty.  At the end of that trail you'll find a throne, and whatever, or whomever, is on that throne is what 's of highest value to you.  On that throne is what you worship.

Worship isn't just a Sunday thing.  It's an all-the-time thing.

You and I were made by Him and made for Him.  You and I exist for one purpose alone - to reflect back to God His matchless glory.

Worship is a whole-life response to God's greatness and glory.

Worship isn't something you attend, like a movie or a concert.  Worship is something you enter into with all your might.  Worship is a participation sport in a spectator culture.

Words come so easy.  And saying (and singing) them makes us feel a little better about ourselves, even when our hearts don't back up the words coming from our lips.

God is no dummy.  He knows what's going on in our hearts.  And God knows how easy it is for us to say one thing and do another.  That's why the true test of worship isn't so much what we say, but how we live.

Your attitude of worship can turn any mundane task into an offering to God.

We aren't designed to operate on a weekly worship cycle, but on a moment-by-moment connection of personal worship that's as much a part of our lives as the air we breathe.

Trust me, church is a lot better when our gatherings are filled with people who have been pursuing God for six days before they get there.  Corporate worship works best when we arrive with something to offer God.  Church is supposed to be a celebration of our personal journeys with God since we were last together.

What would happen if we came worshipping to church, filled with an awareness of His presence before we even reached the door?

Pastor Randy