Worship Is Hard

I have written before about the hard work of worship. I want to add another angle to this on-going conversation. There is a holy exhaustion that comes after a worship service. I believe this is an actual test of a healthy church experience.

Over the years I have heard people ask me why our church music is so difficult. These same people most often thank me a year later for encouraging them to do the hard work of learning psalms and hymns and songs of the Spirit that are unfamiliar to the general evangelical ethos.

If we think we can enter the presence of God and simply leave all the work to the “professionals” while we sit passively watching the spectacle, we are misunderstanding the relationship between Christ and His Church. Worship is a conversation between Groom and Bride and this conversation is not one-sided. Worship is a recapitulation of marriage. Marriage is hard work. It takes time to learn about and from one another. The analogy is similar in worship. In worship, we are learning about God and from God. Therefore, we need to approach God’s throne as participants rather than mere listeners. We are to come boldly before him, and this boldness calls us to work in our relationship and communion with King Jesus.

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