A Moment With Pastor Fred

I want to take this time to thank Susan Froman for serving as our worship coordinator for the past 13 plus years. Yes, she is my wife, but I am also her pastor. So I would be remiss if nothing was said. I know you too have appreciated her service. Please thank her. She plans on continuing serving in our music ministry. But now our son David fills a new role as worship leader here. God in his goodness led he and Gina to HBC. It wasn’t the plan, but we’re all beneficiaries of David’s giftedness. Would you pray for him in this role? His heart is to lead God’s people in exalting our great triune God each Sunday.  

I was encouraged with an article by Bob Kauflin – one of David’s mentors. He writes of how worship is such a subjective topic. “Did I feel like I worshipped today at church?”  We all can appreciate when our feelings are caught up in a service, but worship isn’t about spiritual goosebumps. Kauflin writes, “Worship isn’t centered on me … it’s about God.”  At HBC we repudiate the entertainment style found in many churches today. But even with our commitment to music grounded in solid theology, it is easy to make our worship “man-centered” vs. “God-centered.” 

Bob continues, “Far from being a special moment in a Christian meeting, God-honoring worship is the natural state of our hearts when we seek to do all to the glory of God … Worship is a continual Spirit-enabled response to God’s self-revelation that exalts his glory in Christ in our minds, hearts, and wills. It doesn’t require music and can’t be limited to the realm of feelings (but can certainly involve both). Worship is a gracious gift from our heavenly Father, who invites us over and over again to find our greatest joy in him.  Anytime. Anywhere.”