This is just some of my thoughts as I ponder this...Wow did I struggle with this song this morning in Church... Most of us don't have a clue what this song is about, including me. We try to wrap our heads around the song and it feels really good when we are all belting it out at the top of our longs singing in unison. Pastor Jamie said something to me in the office one day at church and then to you all from the pulpit last week. He said, "You don't know what poverity is untill you touch it." I believe this to be true with many other things. We are taking the song "Heart of Worship" and singing it not really getting the depth of the lyrics. If you know anything about the story behind the song, Matt Redman and his church got rid of there sound system, got rid of the band and they just did worship a apello for sometime. So here I am sitting this morning wondering why we are even doing this song. We don't know what it is like not to have worship with out all the instruments in place. We get frustrated when they are off key or out of sync and then blame them for how worship turns out. Side note... maybe our def. of worship needs to change... So, I was confused this morning when we are singing this song when we really don't have a clue. Maybe we need to touch the depths of this song, what Pastor Jamie said... poverty, and realize that we can apply it in many ways in our lives. This is just a thought and really it is a challange for me.
Heart Of WroshipChorus 1
I'm coming back
To the heart of worship
And it's all about You
All about You Jesus
I'm sorry Lord
For the thing I've made it
When it's all about You
All about You Jesus
Verse 1
When the music fades
All is stripped away
And I simply come
Longing just to bring
Something that's of worth
That will bless Your heart
BRIDGE
I'll bring You more than a song
For a song in itself
Is not what You have required
You search much deeper within
Through the way things appear
You're looking into my heart
Verse 2
King of endless worth
No one could express
How much You deserve
Though I'm weak and poor
All I have is Yours
Ev'ry single breath
A little bit about Matt and the story be hind the song.
"Heart Of Worship"The song dates back to the late 1990s, born from a period of apathy within Matt's home church, Soul Survivor, in Watford, England. Despite the country's overall contribution to the current worship revival, Redman's congregation was struggling to find meaning in its musical outpouring at the time.
There was a dynamic missing, so the pastor did a pretty brave thing, he recalls. He decided to get rid of the sound system and band for a season, and we gathered together with just our voices. His point was that we'd lost our way in worship, and the way to get back to the heart would be to strip everything away.
Reminding his church family to be producers in worship, not just consumers, the pastor, Mike Pilavachi, asked, When you come through the doors on a Sunday, what are you bringing as your offering to God?
Matt says the question initially led to some embarrassing silence, but eventually people broke into a cappella songs and heartfelt prayers, encountering God in a fresh way.
Before long, we reintroduced the musicians and sound system, as we'd gained a new perspective that worship is all about Jesus, and He commands a response in the depths of our souls no matter what the circumstance and setting. The Heart of Worship simply describes what occurred.
When the music fades, all is stripped away, and I simply come / Longing just to bring something thats of worth that will bless your heart / I'm coming back to the heart of worship, and it's all about You, Jesus
Redman remembers writing the song quickly in his bedroom soon after the church's journey together, with no grand intentions, by any means, for it to become an international anthem. He viewed the words simply as his personal, subjective response to what he was learning about worship.
