The Importance of Being Earnest in Worship Article by Nikki Lerner
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The Importance of Being Earnest in Worship Article by Nikki Lerner
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Don’t underestimate the power of what people see. It is critical to what they experience. What people see when they walk into your church or ministry atmosphere speaks volumes to them as they go through the process of trying to find a home church. Imagine that you are visiting your church for the very first time. Coming in through the main entrance, you see a lovely array of diverse people waiting to greet you at the door: White people, Black people, Hispanic people, Indian people and Deaf people. You are encouraged by the church’s mission statement on the wall regarding its God-given mandate to represent the Body of Christ in its fullness. Walking into the gathering space, you notice the representation of different people groups who have all made the choice to come together and worship as a community.
Now, the service begins. The worship team comes out and is a lovely group of people, all of whom are Asian. What message would this send to you? How would what you see on the stage line up with what you had experienced up until this point? The worship team being mono-cultural might communicate that you’ve just walked into an Asian church, or maybe that only the Asian people in the church can minister through music. Do we believe this to be true – that only one racial group has the corner market on good music? Of course not!
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