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!

What is it mean by putting God first?

By Glen Packiam in WorshipGOD 2010 Conference, Dream Centre CUMC - 16 Sept 2010.

Is it about time, where we should put God first in every time we had? or is it about our devotion; first thing in the morning and than the rest of our day we can do our own thing?

Putting God first is not only about our time, where we put Him first in every single time, why or what we did; our worship, singing, lifting our hand or reading bible; but how we act in our daily life, how we pleasing Him or acknowledging Him.

1 Sam 5:1-2 talk about Dagon. Dagon basically mean in Arabic language, Jews and Hebrew is "grain", "rain", "powerful warrior in war victory". This term or meaning also synonym to increase, victory, and success.

A fast question is this thing have a room in our heart? Are we pursuing Increment, victory and success in our life, career and in our relationship? If yes, that's mean we have that "Dagon" god in our life. Can we pursue or after the richness, success, or victory to rule our heart which make less or no room in our heart?

If in our career we are pursuing increment, richness, promotion and success; meaning we give our heart a room for Dagon. If we meant to put God first in our life is that the way we live our life, whereby in our work or in our career we do it for God! We present or show God in our career.

Are we pursuing god of success and hoping Jesus to give us success or are we serving Jesus to give us success?

Jesus do not want to be the first in our life! We cannot simply, "Oh God, i put you first in my list. So now i can put other as second, third and so forth..." Jesus want to be center of our life! Jesus want to be the place where we refer too in our decisions!

When the ark of covenant was placed together in the room with other gods, especially Dagon. That Dagon fell on the ground, with the face facing ground. After the other time that Dagon fell, it broke off!! Al the head, hands and body broke!

Jesus want to reshape, rearrange, redo or redirect our life! Eph 5:21 - If Christ is the center, He will change our life or transform us. He want to be the death of us, selfishess, ego, pursue and He want to get rid of it!!

Are we ready or really want God be the center? We may say in our worship or in our ministry, I love Jesus. But God see our heart. What are we after, pursue and He want to rearrange, redo and get rid off our pursue, dream and other things!!

Putting God First is not about we put God first in our daily time, putting our devotion or putting Him the first in our list, BUT putting God first is about how we live, how our life and how we shows/represent God in our normal daily life!!!

John 2:8