Deep Fry

Louie Giglio once said: “ Worship is our response both personally and corporately to GOD - for who HE is…and for what HE has done…expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live .” Now, in recent past I would have suggested this as a spot-on portrayal of what worship is. But upon further review, my grade has modified to " incomplete ". No doubt, our lives speak with worship serving as the mouthpiece. After all, everyone is worshipping something, right*? But while Giglio’s explanation captures the circumference of what worship is, it doesn’t provide the fullest definition as to what the heart of worship looks like, particularly our ‘ response ’ to God in worship. Truth is : Worship is more than " our response "…and if we're to grasp the entirety of worship, we have to press beyond topical delineations. But before we continue, we need to set a foundational definition of what worship is… During a recent LEGACYouth Facedown service, we d...

Presented at the 2014 Messenger Fellowship Summit In contemporary culture, the relationship between young people and the church can be rather complicated. As recent undergraduates and now current youth pastors, we’ve seen many peers struggle to connect with the church. But while young people aren't necessarily turning their backs on faith, they are turning their backs on appearances of godliness that are powerless. Right or wrong they feel that church people are hypocritical; saying that they’re loving, but really marked by partial tolerance. So though many youth are leaving the church in droves, they still carry a desire for the church to be the church. When young adults walk out on church, they often aren’t walking out on God. Youth, today, possess unprecedented sensitivity. For instance, if young people feel they are the target of an evangelistic agenda, chances are it will rub them the wrong way. Why? Because youth are groomed to value perpetual movement in a dis...