Guest blog post by Chase McKissick, Children’s Pastor
One of the best Sundays of my tenure on staff here at Compass Church happened just two Sundays ago. It was the first Sunday of the merge and the energy in the church was incredible. From the parking lot to the stage there was an excitement and buzz around this place and an expectation that God was going to show up in a powerful way!
Then… sure enough He did! It was incredible to walk into the back of the worship center and see it packed full of people singing praise to God and to see so many people with “arms high and heart abandoned”. The spirit of God was all over that worship center in that moment as we came together as one body.
As amazing as that experience was it could only be topped by my experience that day in Compass Kids. We decided that as we kicked off our new worship series it was time to take our kids’s worship to a whole new level. So for the first time, we had the incredible 706 band lead Compass Kids in worship. It took the kids a little bit of time (especially for the older ones) to stop worrying about what they looked like to their friends standing around them, but pretty soon the kid’s theater was filled with the same spirit of worship that everyone experienced in the adult service.
Seeing so many kids in such a short period of time learn and then experience what it means to worship was an event that challenged me to the core. Seeing so many little kids genuinely raise their hands in worship and sing praise to God reminded me that we are truly wired to worship. What if I was like some of the youngest kids in the theater that day in my worship to God?
What if I let go of everything that gets between me and God and truly worshiped Him like a child? What if we were like that in our worship to God as a church? Maybe this is part of what Jesus meant when he said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3).
This Sunday at Compass we continue our “Worship Him” series. I invite you to join us as we seek to experience that same kingdom Jesus spoke of by learning more of what it means to worship Him like a child.
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