“The Singing Life”

Is there a song that when you hear it instantly transports you to another time and place? Maybe it takes you back to your first live concert. Perhaps a song reminds you of the feel of the passenger’s seat of your best friend’s car on a road trip. The right song may enable you, just for a moment, to smell the perfume your wife wore on your wedding day. Love, loss, victories and disappointments, music has the unparalleled power to conjure up them all. Singing in worship to God – whether alone at home or alongside others at church – has a unique ability to make us feel safe enough to go to the depths of our grief and then, somehow, be lifted out of our circumstances, into the joyous presence of God. Worship is a way to be brutally honest with God about our pain and uninhibited in our praise – sometimes in the same song! This week, we continue our series Get a (NEW) Life by exploring the role of worship in the life of a disciple, and how it cultivates new life outside a weekly church service.