What's Worship

I've been thinking about what really is communal worship (what we always do during service). With all those drums and music notes, we worship God with our skills and heart. In the past, I only know one thing about standing up there with the worship team.

It's not a place for you to show off but to lead the congregation and worship God with all your heart.

But recently, after being together with the worship team for a few weeks, I started to learn about the technical side of things. "Hey, that must be louder" / "Hey, the feel must be there" / "Hey, this and that". The reason for all these is "we want to give our best to God".

And I've been praying/thinking, what really is communal worship. I received an e-mail about worship excellence. It says worship excellence is about leading the people to worship and not to distract them and cause them to look at the worship team instead. Somehow, I felt funny after reading that and I just deleted that e-mail away.

So yesterday, I told someone about this and that someone asked me: "Is it still excellence when the worship team has one guitar less or someone is only leading with one guitar". Someone else told me to read the book of Psalms and Revelations. And I've been praying.

Any someone out there willing to share with me anything?