What is Worship?

Hi, My name is Seth Short! This is my first blog post and I am excited to start blogging. For my first blog I just wanted to talk about what worship means to me. I am a worship leader at my church Celebrate Community Church in South Dakota. Worship has been something I have fallen in love with ever since I became a member on my Youth Groups Worship Team as well as our main services Worship Teams.

It's really hard to describe what worship is since worship can be a very personal thing. As a worship leader my Number 1 Goal is for no one in the room to miss out on the presence of God. That's why I can jump around, that's why I can raise my hands in worship. Not for an outward showoff, but because that is how Jesus has shaped my life.

As a teenager, often people don't understand. I've had a lot of adults who come up to me and are like "I could never get up there and worship like you when I was younger" and I just always tell them thats how Jesus has changed my life.

Last February I had the opportunity to lead worship at a Youth Winter Retreat for my Church. Something that I will never forget is for one of our sets we did really great songs. The thing is at the end we did a whole spontaneous worship segment. It was really incredibly and kind of emotional. At the end we played a song called Set A Fire which is a lot about for Jesus to Set A Fire down in our souls, so we can get out of our comfort zones and just praise him.

That's what worship is. I heard it said once that when you get out of your comfort zone in worship, Jesus steps in. That is so true though. I have also head it once that raising your hands in worship isn't for spiritual showoff, but its what a child does when they want to be held by their dad. I am so excited for what God is going to do in this blog and in my church as well.