Worship...The Radical Way (Part 3)

Okay, well we've talked a little about worship. Trust me, there is so much we won't even get into!
You'll notice we aren't talking just about worship. We are talking about radical worship! Radical worship means giving everything up to God. If the Spirit leads you to kneel in the grocery market, and belt out a song, that is great. Just do the Spirit tells you. Now, I am not speaking of speaking in tongues and all that. Speaking in tongues still exists. Some missionarys will share Christ with people who know nothing of their language, and they will still know and understand what they are saying! (Isn't our God great?) But, just blabbering and all that, well, I just don't beleive in it. Sorry if that offends, but I hope you will keep reading anyways.
Radical worship is not thinking of what the person next to you will think if you close your eyes and raise your hands. It is doing what God wants you to do, be it to raise your hands or stand there quietly.
To truly worship radically we must be in complete surrender to God. We need to be right with God. Now, I am not saying we can't worship with that little tiny sin in our lives. (actually no sin is little so...) But, I don't think we are going to experience quite the presence of God we might if we had confessed it. I also don't think we can live up to what God wants us to be if we are living in sin.
By now you're saying, "Okay, but what is the difference? I can't see any differences in what you pointed out so far."
Radical worship means jumping out of the boat of tradition to follow God. (to quote Beth Moore) Like in the Bible story where Peter jumps out of the boat to go to Jesus. We have to jump, trust and don't look down.That is part of some people's problem in worship. I have done it soo many times. We are really experiencing God, and then we look around and no one else seems to be having the same experience. We immediately drop our eyes and don't really worship for the rest of the time. We have to keep our eyes on God. If our focus is God and on him being first, we can truly experience radical worship.