Brand New Site!
Here it is… My long awaited worship blog site is finally here!
My name is Sarah Legge and I live in Dublin, Ireland. I have been a worship leader for over 10 years. After lessons learned and preparing material for worship leaders, and having a deep desire to connect with others involved in leading worship around Ireland and in other countries, I have finally got together my own little blog corner dedicated to all things worship.
I hope that what you read here will bless you, encourage you and inspire you to allow God to use you in this area for His glory!
Blessings to you,
Sarah
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15:56:44
It was really good going through your post,could you give me more details regarding laedind worship, I am an indian with strong traditional and cultural background and i have been into lots of spiritual research. your words seem to be very inspiring …looking forward to hear you inspire .
take care
stephen
hem stephen, Hi Stephen, welcome to leadingworship.blog.com!
thank you for your comment and my apologies for the delay in responding - I have been away. I’m glad you enjoyed the post. Information wise, I guess I can only tell you of my own personal experience, which I am happy to share…
I grew up in a christian family, which was always a strong influence in my life and decisions. I was always a spiritual person (like yourself) and I always talked with God as a child. I even had the unforgettable experience of hearing God call me by my name during the night when I was 7 years old. The one I knew about God is that He loved me and wanted a relationship with me.
As I grew up, the message of Jesus became even more real to me - that we are all born sinful and far from God, who is holy and can only look on what is holy. Because of the sin that we are born into, we are not able to earn being right with God through our own effort, as nothing we do will ever be good enough to make us perfect. And so because God loves us so much and desires relationship with us, He sent His only son Jesus to earth, to become the only acceptable sacrifice in God’s sight and to die on our behalf, taking all our sin and wiping it out and paying its penalty (separation from God), and so restore the way for us to come to God. The only way I could be forgiven for my sin and failing was to accept what Jesus had done on my behalf, knowing that I could never do it for myself, and ask Him to forgive all my sin and to be my Lord of my life.
I had heard this message repeatedly for most of my life, but where it makes impact in my personal life the most, is that I know what a mess I would be in if I didn’t have Jesus to save me from my mess. Other religions, even catholic Christianity, are focused on what I had to do to please God which means constant striving to earn acceptance with God my own way. I now know that there’s nothing I can ever do, except to embrace what someone else already did for me to make it right.
You know, it’s the greatest gift I could ever be given - a pardon for the debt of my sin, hope for my future, peace in my heart, knowing that God loves and accepts me and the promise of eternal life through Jesus. When I think about what He has saved me from - myself, a life without hope - my natural response to Him to worship Him, to thank God for what He did on my behalf, to praise Him for all His goodness to me. Just thinking of what He saved me from makes me want to sing, to smile, to dance, to shout! A life of worship to God flows out of this grateful heart, and I want to share that joy with anyone who wants it. If you want to experience that, it’s yours for the taking, right now! This is why I worship, why I lead worship and why I teach others about worship - Jesus gave me life, and I want to say thank you to Him for the rest of my life.
God bless you as you research. I pray that you find this joy and freedom for yourself.
Sarah