They are humbly coming before God to know him and his character, with renewed fervency and enthusiasm. In community, they are singing God's praises. This evening, Barney Ford, the Director of Urbana 2000, described God's gift of worship, a gift he's bestowed upon today's students and youth in unique ways. Worship is not first for us.
Worship is about who is being worshipped.
And through worship, God reveals two stories to his people. Firstly, God reveals his story, the reality of who he is, what he's done and what he's doing to redeem the world. Then we live our own story. We're people on a journey from a place apart from God to a place of peace and communion with Jesus. The two stories, ours and God's, are inextricably intertwined.