For the Institute of Contemporary and Emerging Worship Studies, St. Stephen’s University, Essential Red Online Worship History Course with Dan Wilt. 

I’ve been thinking about my own practice of worship in regards to time and space and have decided a couple things: as far as me becoming disciplined to create ‘times’ of worship in my own life it has become very apparent that creating a space is fairly important.

My art/music room contains some fantastic inspirations: a ridiculous amount of good music, a yamaha cp-80, my acoustic, 100′s of songwriting attempts, my fretless bass, my new genz benz shuttle 6.0 head (it’s ridiculously good sounding), blank paper, and nice wood floors. 

However its a mess and somewhat difficult to enter. So this last week I’ve begun to at least place things in such a way that I can freely enter the room. Already, this has made a difference; I’ve been entering more (three nights in a row and counting). I’ve been picking up my acoustic and writing new attempts. I was doing some leading for worship sing-along last Sunday and I actually practised before! Having a space is important it would seem.

As long as I have a space I like I don’t think making the time will be a problem. I’m sure this principal has some other application… When I create a space, I’m invested and identified in that space; it makes sense I would want to go there.

A few thoughts stem off this: God is making us his art space. How can we include/facilitate our worship community to communally create a space?

I’m on a journey of simplifying my life; complications come from trying to do a lot to be productive and eventually you become automatic. Simplifying means creating space to do what you can and it still be intentional and meaningful. I find it great comfort that God doesn’t seem to demand of me a lot of results just one or two good ones.

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