September 27, 2008

k-worship & koinonia

k-worship
hallelujah, praise the Lord
sing out (this is how it isn't supposed to be)
but it is, and here we are
and it is a time for Change
and it is a time to stay still and wait

Forgive Me
i only fear that i am not doing enough
valley of the shadow, i ~ not

and we are blinded by love
our eyes are OPENED with Love
words overlapping
words are just a sentance
strung together from the depths of our heart
because our hearts can't cry so our tongues do
our deceitful lips licking; we're sorry
we praise You hallelujah

we say our own words
and we sing with the group
a mistake? a slip of song?

a wrong chord, a missed note?
there are none!
where our sins are forgiven
and our hearts burn with passion
and zeal for our Jesus

where

koinonia
wow koinonia has grown so much
and now i am thrown off my feet because
there is not enough time and we are trapped by it
i want to reach out to every single one of them
i want to hold everyone's hand at least once
(the cultural difference is killing me - there's good and bad)
and tell them i love them, though i know them not
and i love Them because They are a Part of this Christ-body
and i love them because they are not a part of this freedom
and i wonder: how many people are really f r e e?
they say they are but they can't even face it
Lord i can't face this not-facing, so i turn to You
who should i speak to? i reach out to the new and lonely
and my old friends draw away, but it doesn't matter
because You hold everything that is me and not me

i try to give so much, and making myself vulnerable is hard
when people are chatting and not giving back, and it's NOT okay
but we'll have to do... pray pray pray pray pray pray Pray

wow i am bad at leading worship right now
and my team isn't musically the most amazing
and sometimes we get caught up and forget
but now we know, but God will take
this matter of self and make it the un-self, the congregation
and i just want people in koinonia to understand!
worship is not about how we look
it's about how we are praising thanking telling-of asking-for
a Consuming Fire our God

how can people see Christians have something going on
when we can't even sing out loud? it's not about us - it's not
it took me a long time to look outside myself
and realize hey, worship isn't about ME.
worship isn't Worship right now and it's killing me
put in a "leadership" position, which is more servant than anything

and i just want to shake people and say HEY WAKE UP
because there is so much more! and i am not doing enough
i will do my best, and leave everything else

but ya, God, work in us.

1 comment:

Evangel said...

"i try to give so much, and making myself vulnerable is hard
when people are chatting and not giving back, and it's NOT okay
but we'll have to do... pray pray pray pray pray pray Pray"

but God loves unconditionally even when others do less than not give back even when people spit his love back at him
we are to LOVE like HE LOVES so let his love be your love for the people


AND you are NOT good enough or holy enough to lead worship or anything enough
neither I'm I

thats why God must be our strength or all will fail