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Romans 12:1-2 (The Message): “So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.”

There is the challenge set before us: to live a life of worship.

Worship is a an honest response of love toward God. It is honest because God is a personal God who values authenticity in our relationship with him. The Psalms are a beautiful example of real communication from an honest heart to a loving God. It is also a response of love, because as scripture states in 1 John 4:19, “We love because he first loved us.” Worship is an integral part of life, whether you are religious or not. The things we value are the things that consume our energy, time, and resources.  It is the goal of (boulevard) live worship ministry that students learn what it means to be a true worshipper, who worships God in spirit and in truth (John 4:23-24).
–Amy Diekevers