July 21 2008
1 Question Interview: What’s Next? by Scot Longyear
Tagged Under : interview, One Question Interview, Scot Longyear, What's Next?
What’s Next?
This one question I am asking various worship leaders and pastors. The context is what’s next in corporate worship but beyond that no guidance has been given for appropriate response. I’m excited to share in the coming weeks the wide ranging responses received.
Up first we have Scot Longyear, Lead Pastor of a community called eXchange which is part of Maryland Community Church where Scot serves as the Sr. Associate Pastor. Scot is also a worship leader and songwriter and currently has a worship cd entitled “Simple Worship” available on iTunes. He blogs at www.reson8.org which has been added to the blogroll. Here is Scot’s response to What’s Next?
What’s Next? We live like we sing.
I think God is getting tired of hearing our songs. I know I am getting tired of singing them. OK, maybe that is a bit harsh. Rephrase: I think God is tired of us singing on Sunday and living shallow on Monday.
Sunday: “Man, worship was good today. The kick drum was totally in my chest and that one song is anointed. Did you see everybody praisin’?”
Monday (same guy): “Man, my girlfriend and I always wake up late so I can never get to devotions. And don’t ask me to give any time or money, I don’t have either one to give. I might have some money if my idiot friend gave me the money he owes me. Yea, I know what God says about all this, but . . .”
If the church is only a good sing-along time with a rockin’ band, count me out. I want to be a part of a movement that changes the world. I want to live in community, follow Christ, and serve in his cause. When we do that, Sunday AND Monday rocks with worship like never before.
What’s next? A church that lives like it sings and sings like it lives. The result: All hell breaks lose. That’s my hope and prayer.
For a song along this thought, check out Orphan’s Blood.
Podcast - 
Facebook
Twitter
Soundcloud
Stumbleupon
Linked In
Vimeo
You Tube
Contact
Loading ...
scott,
I love that!! A life of worship not just an expression. Obedience is better then sacrifice. Scott, bless you in your ministry and let you heart always be the same.
Kyle,
Love the idea of interviewing other leaders and hearing there heart. Keep up the good stuff!
Thanks for the post Kyle. Great idea. Looking fwd to the other responses.
[...] Kyle (right) at Our Rising Sound recently asked me that question. Kyle has asked the same question to several leaders, and will post their answers in coming weeks. Check out my answer to the question here. [...]
K,
I am not a worship pastor but i want to be a pastor who worships. I believe Scot has hit the nail on the head. I do believe God is tired of hearing us just sing songs about Him or to Him. He wants us to live life for Him. I want to live life fully alive in Him, making a difference in “my world.”
Something else I’ve noticed . . . though the new worship movement is wonderful, we can find ourselves with a very limited worship vocabulary. We need to search for new things to say to God, and about God, in our corporate worship. Borrowing a line of reasoning from Ed Young, if I said the same things to my wife day in and day out, and never said or discussed anything new and different with her, the relationship would lose intimacy and become stale.
Jerry: I think that’s a great point and I actually did a post about that very point entitled, “Simple Lyrics – Are we only reaching the surface areas”
http://www.ourrisingsound.com/2007/10/26/simple-lyrics-are-we-only-reaching-the-surface-areas/
[...] was reading this post by my friend Scot Longyear and was directed to this one from there. I have, to my knowledge, never met Kyle but find the question he asks an intriguing [...]
Kyle,
I have written a post about this for today (7/23) at billgrandi.com. or here: http://billgrandi.ovcf.org/wordpress/?p=374.
Bill: I appreciate your comments and completely agree, transformation is unavoidable if we’re truly worshippers of Christ.