Worship Stations

This weekend at resonate we're going to be introducing a new way to engage in worship: we're going to engage in worship stations.

We serve and worship an experiential God - a God that doesn't want us to merely know about him in our heads, but One that wants us to experience Him with our whole bodies. He's tactile. Throughout Scripture, God engages with our different senses in order to communicate more of his character (we do that each time we take communion-- we eat and drink in order to remember).

Stations are a way to engage in God in unique and different ways. Stations include opportunities to journal, listen, confess sins, pray for our lost friends and neighbors, respond to God with a thankful heart and experience His character. Stations allow opportunities around the room to experience and respond to God with our different senses. Many people aren't used to physical movement around the room during worship, but I'm excited to provide an opportunity for us as a faith community to be stretched outside of our comfort zone in order to understand that worship is more than just singing when we're at church.

I've been in prayer that these stations simply wouldn't come off as us trying to be 'cool and hip' but that it would allow us to experience the presence of the living God in ways we've never experienced Him before and to respond thankfully, reverently and appropriately.

If you're going to be attending resonate this weekend I want to encourage and challenge you to think about this opportunity. It'd be easy to stay in your seat the entire time, but I want to challenge you to try these, get up out of your seat and see if God wants to meet you at these stations. It may be new and unique for you, but let's all try to step out of our comfort zones and engage with the Living God.

Hope to see you at resonate.

Comments

[ally]

Great idea! We did this at an old church I went to and it was great.

I'm a mover when I pray and new places, sights and sounds stimulate my mind and take my prayer to different places.

For those people who find it uncomfortable, I pray that they had the fantastic experience of stretching themselves a bit. That's where I see God in spectacular ways.