Who Are You and Why Are You Doing This Now?

Who Am I and Why Am I Doing This Now?


A wonderful pair of questions (I am glad you asked them).   I am going to answer them out of order.  I am doing this at the urging of God.  In my quiet time, I have really felt that I needed to share some of the things that I learned about worship and worshiping.  Many of which I was never taught although I believe many of the things that I am going to explore with this blog I deeply believe need to be much more explicitly explained.  I am also doing this because I do not ever want to ever take for granted that which I have learned through leading and walking with Christ and others.


Who I am, is a young man who is a worshiper and has been blessed to lead in several arenas.  But my qualifications are irrelevant (not unimportant, just irrelevant).  Their irrelevance is because God does the calling and the promoting in His Kingdom [see 1st Peter 5:6-7].  He calls and qualifies us to positions and posts as He wills and because of that it is God that defines one's qualifications.


But, my faith story does birth my perspective on worship so here is the "Cliff Notes" Version: I accepted Christ at a young age in New Horizon Baptist Church in Temple Hills, Maryland.  I was surrounded by a mother and aunts who were strong in the faith.  I moved to North Carolina at 5 and joined a church with a powerful teacher/preacher (Rev. McLaughlin).  I still consider him my spiritual father.  I loved going to church and experiencing church, but the reasons why we worship were never made clear.   As I grew up, music became an obvious love and passion.  This was cultivated in my participation in a touring Boys Choir.  While a member of this choir I had the opportunity to experience many different corporate worship styles (which augmented my Black Baptist roots).  Those experiences expanded my view of worship.  (I press pause here [mini-exegesis moment]: John 4:24--was a scripture used as a description of what our worship should look like...but never was fully explained.  Jesus says to the woman at the well that, "God is a Spirit and those that worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."  But, here's an insight, Jesus is responding to the woman's question about worship being tied to location and Jesus gives a law of His Kingdom that worship will no longer be location-centric as under the law, but motive-centric.  God is looking at our motives in worship and our willingness to make our worship completely about Him.  More on that to come soon...)  As I have grown older, God has opened many opportunities to lead and in that learn more about worship.  I have been a church musician, worship leader, choir director, music minister, organist, choir member, and in every role and every place and season God has placed me He has been faithful to teach and humble me.  That is what has brought me here.