This is a fantastic call-and-response style liturgy to encourage people to bring all they are to worship.  It is based on Jesus' challenge to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind and strength in contemporary language.  Sam had three thousand people shouting it at the top of their lungs in the Spring Harvest Big Top, but it would work just as well in a small gathering.  The leader does the bits in normal type and the congregation the bits in bold (obviously...)
 

Come to worship!  Come and give God all you are!
Put your hearts into it:
make up your minds to give him the best.
With all our hearts we worship.

Open up your souls and spirits:
let his Spirit move you and touch you.
With all our souls we worship.

Don't switch off your brains:
worship thoughtfully and intelligently.
With all our minds we worship.

Put your back into it:
never tire of exalting God and showing others you mean it.
With all our strength we worship.

All creation worships God,
everything I am comes to give him the best I can.

(C) John Leach/engageworship.org

John is executive director of the Music and Worship Foundation, author of great books like 'Living Liturgy', and has just recently become the vicar of St John the Baptist, Folkestone.

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Sharon Tedford

07 May 2009 14:12

 

Love it! Well received by all ages in a recent Sunday service. Thanks for the clear and simple language. Really helpful and useful resource. More John....!

Tammy Gould

11 May 2009 23:38

 

I like this one...can't wait to use it. Thank you...

Neil Morgan

19 Jun 2009 19:01

 

Great idea!! Do you think John would be averse to me taking his idea and changing some of the wording (I'll credit him accordingly, of course)? I don't think the language used herein is what would work at my church, for some reason...