The Audience of One

In the post below I talked about the "audience of one"- God.

We try to remind persons often at New Season about the audience of one on a regular basis. We find that it is so easy for worship to become a performance for those sitting in the seats. This is especially true when we consider our style of worship and our place of worship. With screens, looping backgrounds, guitars and sometimes drums it might be easy for a worshipper to perceive worship as a performance for them. Throw on top of this the fact that our music people are on a "stage" in an auditorium and you have the recipe for worship as performance.

We like to remind people that worship is a performance in some respect- a performance for God. God is the audience for our worship and the object of our worship. We are always seeking ways to involve people in worship so they do not become mere spectators. Just naming that in worship to those gathered just like I did above goes a long way to dispel notions that the people in the seats are the audience.