Youth and Music

As shared by Sidney Mohede, topic on Youth and Music in WorshipGod 2010 Conference at Dream Center DUMC, K.L

What is worship to you? Basically worship is not about music. Not about song that we sang, or the tune of the song. Not about the fast and slow song. True Worship is about What God want to do in our life. What is God's will in our life. Worship is about our sacrifice and His will in our activity or our Worship Leading and music.

Worshipers are meant to lay down their live, and it's not about just want to be on stage cause we want to be cool, look cool but to lay down our life entire in our daily life.

We can't lead audience to the place we never been there. For example, in worship leading we are to bring the audience and lead them to worship. But most of the time the issues is W/L tend to lead the audience and create the atmosphere by our self. We can create the atmosphere of God's presence. The meaning of what it is mean by "we never been there" is that, God's presence can be in any form, any where and work in different way. We can't simply create it in our worship leading. All we need to do during our worship leading is that we will let God lead His presence during our worship leading. We can't let audience to God's presence cause God's presence is omnipotent. That is what as describe in Worship Leading is the Art of Disappearing.

The art of disappearing is that once we worship leading, we suppose to lead the congregation into worship and join us to worship. As a worship leader, we can't only worship alone but to lead the congregation into worship together with us. Once we lead them, and the worship is on than it is our time to disappear and let God take over and handle the our worship leading. Let Him to take over and move in His own way during our worship time. Worship leader is not like a cheerleader, but to let go once God's presence begin to touch among us. This art also simple mean that we are to make God known in our worship leading.

Our worship leading on stage is just a platform of our self offstage. The real worship is off stage and we reflecting God in our worship leading when we on stage. That's mean on stage is not about we try to be cool or look cool, but we leading congregation into worship together with God.

Another tip:

to be success is SUCCESS=Opportunity + Preparation. Meaning we want to be success in our worship leading, we need to prepare every time and any how. Preparation is our humanly part. We need to be prepared. But, Opportunity is God's part. God will provide that oppurtunity for us and if we prepare enough, we will success. Conclusion, To SUCCESS have to be God's part and our part together!