Comments on: Live Like We Sing

By: A.

A. — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:52:46 +0000

Definitely an amen!

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:05:59 +0000

Beautiful post Shawn! I think that this is all too common with many Christians and church goers. Going to church and the camraderie with other Christians gets you all fired up for God but once you get back into the daily grind and hostile non believers life really takes a toll on you..Thanks for the reminder Shawn!

By: Kees Boer

Kees Boer — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:43:36 +0000

I like what Michael W. Smith says about it. Sponsoring a child is an act of worship. In many ways, I feel that the songs that are sung in churches fall more under the category of prayer than under the category of worship, that is if I had to differentiate between the two. (I’m kind of splitting Ecclesiological hairs here) LOL!

Kees

By: Marci Carpentier

Marci Carpentier — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:54:42 +0000

Thank you Shawn; that was beautiful.

By: Juli Jarvis

Juli Jarvis — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:05:57 +0000

I agree — and I feel just like Compassion Dave when I get to volunteer behind a Compassion table to sign up new sponsors. It was particularly evident at a recent Jeremy Camp concert, where we were on the baseball field near the stage and the teens were literally running to our table to sponsor children while the worship [in the form of music] was going on. I was thinking, “Now this is true worship.” I would drive 6 hours again to see this happen anytime!

Then we saw the kids that were leaving church in a refurbished ambulance [license plate Luke 911] to take food and supplies to the homeless in their community [I wrote about it and posted photos on my blog] and I thought, “This is true servant leadership…and this is what it means to worship!” They said to us, “We know how to find them. We know where they live. We know where they sleep.” Worship and love in action!

By: Wealthy Bob

Wealthy Bob — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:50:09 +0000

My name’s Wealthy Bob (or so I call myself) and I just wanted to introduce myself since I just came across your blog and actually read what you posted! You’ve been bookmarked, I’ll definitely be back.

By: Jill Foley

Jill Foley — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:06:30 +0000

You hit the nail right on the head! This is awesome and I hope oodles of people read this and ingest it! (including myself).

I had a little dose of “doing what I sing” yesterday morning when my 3 1/2 yr. old wanted to bake cookies for the neighbors. It was 7:30 am…too early for baking cookies. But the Veggie Tales were singing “love your neighbor….” and so it was a teachable moment and we grabbed it!

By: Vicki Small

Vicki Small — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:53:01 +0000

Interesting timing…for a week and a half, I’ve been haunted by the reality that I sing one way, and when the chips are down, I live another way. Case in point: Learning on a Saturday that my niece had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer left me thoroughly unable to sing anything in church, on Sunday. The first song was “Blessed be Your name,” which I usually sing with gusto. But here I was when the darkness was closing in, when the world was not all that it should be, and I couldn’t begin to bless His name. I was too mad at Him, not to mention the crying (I can’t sing and cry at the same time).

You should hear me sing, when things are going well, though.

By: Beth Ingersoll

Beth Ingersoll — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:18:52 +0000

Awesome!

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