True Worship

~ by Adam Ane

When I first came to Glengate, I already had a background in music and had been to countless shows in Toronto and other places. What I really appreciated most about the worship at Glengate was that the songs that I had recently come to know were being played and sung- but the weren't done like I had heard from the artists. I really appreciated that because what I heard was people worshipping the only way they knew how. And that was the way God had built them. I got to see people in true worship. In front of their family, and as they worshipped the family also worshipped and it wasn't a performance like I was used to . It was a family of believers worshipping: some on the stage and some in the chairs in the gym. That is what I appreciated. There was no pretension, no 'performance', no ego, and to me it seemed more real than some of the other church places I had been that seemed to be all caught up in 'performance' and lights. And coming from that background for many years prior- it was the last thing I wanted to see. It's not that doing those kinds of things are wrong but if it becomes the driving force then I think we've lost something.