in every fiber of our being. It was about shifting
my attention, and He said to me, “You don’t
have to reach for Me, I’m right here!” My idea
of worship was so connected to what I had
experienced in church, or even to sit down
around a piano, or a moment like that where I
felt moved to worship. And now, worship is in
every breath. It’s an open conversation, and it’s
changed everything. It’s also calmed me down,
internally, to where I’m not self-important, like I
was when I was a teenager. When we mature
in God, we realize that worship doesn’t always
look like a roaring room full of people, and our
worship should look different when we’re not
in that room. It shouldn’t look the same. I don’t
share intimacy with my husband outside of my
house – that would be weird! There should be
something sacred that is between us and the
Lord that doesn’t happen in corporate worship.
When I catch Stephen’s eyes across a crowded
room of people, there’s something between
us that only we know. And it’s like that with are for remembrance and for us to be revived. [Kalley] It translates quite a bit. I did a song
God. When we step into a corporate place, if There’s a resurgence that happens when back on Starlight called “I See the Light,” and
everyone has met with God before they come we gather together and have an assembly that was birthed out of a time where I was
and has their own history with Him, and they of people. We all share testimony and sing just sitting after singing through a song on the
can catch His eye and press into that place, together, and there’s something powerful that album where I felt like I had more to say. So, I
what can happen in that room is unstoppable will always happen in that environment. But sat there at my piano and I began to just sing
because they came in connected. I think that translates to the fruit of the Spirit: out my story, and that’s where that came from.
love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, Sometimes though, you forget about it, and
[Amanda] It’s all connected, How we live is gentleness, and self-control. The lives that we then you find yourself in a worship set, while
really our display of devotion, more than the lead is the worship that will be remembered, you’re not trying to make anything happen or
markers – and the markers are amazing! They more than the songs that any of us write. to create anything, and it mentally comes back.
You remember that moment you had with God,
and you think to yourself, “Why don’t you try
it out here? That might relate and be for more
than just you.” And then you have that to give.
I’m not an accomplished musician, but I do
carve out time to worship, in the traditional
sense. I really value and prioritize being in
corporate worship where I am not leading.
It’s so essential. I can’t always be the leader.
I have to know how to be led, I have to know
how to receive. That becomes a lot of where
that happens for me, as well as my time alone
with the Lord, worshiping. I would say though
that, for me, I really love the Word. A lot of my
worship is in the reading. It’s also in relationship
with people, where I’m running with them
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