Just Ask

On Sunday, we visited a church we hadn’t been to before. While the eight of us filed in a few minutes past starting time and found our seats in two rows, two leaders addressed the congregation. A woman played keys softly behind their call to worship.

It went on for about ten minutes, meandering between prayers and sharing.

They had such passion and energy in their exhortation, inviting us into a time of delight with the LORD. There was a stageful of instruments and no players, except for one of the keyboards.

The thought of how “sad” it might be if they finish their exhortation and the keyboardist is left to carry the energy alone. Was the whole worship team away at a retreat? Should I offer to play guitar with her by catching her eye and doing an air guitar question? (Don’t judge, I bet you have done that before too!)

Well, as they ended the prayer, about eight worship team members crowded the stage and began to lead a time of beautiful worship unto the LORD.

This was my first time at this church, so I don’t know if a ten-minute call to worship was their custom. Or did the “exhortation leaders” get a talking to about how much time they took? Or if it was, like it was to us, simply what they did this week because it was how the LORD had led them?

What I do know is that they had a clear and compelling “ask.”

Do you? Every week?

If you want some further inspiration, go to the archives and read 12 Ways To Say “Welcome” In Worship: https://www.adlibmusic.com/worship-fertilizer/48

-Dave Helmuth
(purchase my book, "Worship Fertilizer: (the first hundred)" HERE)

Just Ask (Nº 356)