2 weeks ago we had our community anniversary, the sound system power was run by a large generator, every thing was fine until something went wrong with the breakers and no power was being supplied to the sound system, and the worship was just starting. after an hour of delay wala parin and it was getting late, the pastoral leaders decided to go ahead with or with out power for sound systems, so with just a single acoustic guitar with out mic, we sang, hundred of people just sang with their hearts, never saw many people sing with so much feelings and joy in their hearts it brought tears in my eyes, never in my life that I ever have felt God's presence that much in worship, eventually after several songs the power was fixed and everything went well.
God's message to me was. "Yes, I do love your effort to praise me with all your arrangements, equipments, talents etc... but it only takes a simple joyful, sincere, true love of worship for me to be glad" As I examine my self kuminsan na lulunod tayo sa mga arrangements, presentation, technicalities and it begins to boarder on performance, well it's good to provide the best that we could offer, pero kumisan masyado na tayong na didistract sa technicalities nawawala iyng essence ng true worship sa pag tugtog natin na lilipat sa presentation or sabi nga ng isang kasama ko " bordering on performance".
