Freedom to Worship

What does it mean to worship freely??? Is it something physical that we do or is something that goes on in our head. This has been a recent conversation within our Crusade worship band. Being on stage and leading worship is a way different worship experience than being in the audience. As we began to discuss this topic we all agreed that you can worship freely on stage and as a matter of fact, we as leaders should be the first to enter into worship. I think entering into worship starts way before anyone ever takes a step on stage. This past week I began to realize that freedom in worship for me really begins in my daily life and musically speaking, it starts at worship practice.
For those who didn't know, for crusade, we practice in pat and danny's little cubby attached to there room. Once you put six smelly guys in the room and a good smelling girl (us guys smell too much for lissa's good smells to cover them up) it becomes a hot gym-like smelling sauna. It's a lot of fun cause we have mulit-colored lights. Ok so back to worshiping freely. I find that during practice it is a time were we can all praise God for who he is. We have no worries about people watching or the pressure of the stage. Monday night we ended practice all singing Come Thou Fount acapella. It was such a sweet way to worship. I believe that the way one practices is the way they will perform during game time. At crusade tonight I fell that I had a freedom to worship, not literally being that I was tied down to playing the drums, but I was able to freely worship while playing. I would like to encourage you all to let go of whatever might hinder you when are worshiping and worship freely.
In other news, the boys of avalon are enjoying getting to know their new found love of tea. We take a tumbler or thermos (in matt's case) to school everyday. It has become something that we enjoy quite a lot. And as you can see below matt left some nice skin marks on the street earlier today. No need to worry mama fitch, joe and i are taking good care of him (more tea). Hope everyone has had a great week.
Until next time-Keith