Philosophy of Worship

Another post for the IMG website:

At Inner Metro Green, we believe in real, organic worship. We are not looking to make worship a big production. That is for the rock stars. Although we love going to concerts, worship in our minds is the exact opposite. There is no entertainment or shredding on the guitar. It’s someone taking us to the Highest Being and pleading for forgiveness. It’s thanking God for giving us another day alive to praise His name.

The worship leader at IMG is me, Jonathan Sigmon. I facilitate the time we take each Sunday morning to praise our Creator through song, prayer, and other forms of worship. The vision of worship is still being created, but the goal is to get as many people involved as possible. The goal is to not do the same thing every week and think outside of the box, while still recognizing that we are humans and occasionally enjoy structure.

As for the song selection, IMG is very picky about the words we sing. I will admit that I have many pet peeve’s of the songs that are sung in church and am not looking to simply repeat the same phrase over and over and over. Also, the song has to be a song that a whole group can follow. However, we will never insult our group’s intelligence by choosing simple songs with meaningless words (or words that none of us understand!). More importantly, our heart is to praise God. Of course there will be times where you hate the song being sung or may get bored during worship. We encourage you to take time and redirect your energies to prayer and reflection.

As for me, I am not a performer. I am barely an average guitar player and sing with an average voice. But that is ok. At IMG we are not looking for the most talented and best rehearsed if they are not trying to honor God with their lives. Of course, we are not looking to just throw anyone up there. You have to be gifted in order to play or sing. However, whether you are up front or not, we are all worshipping God together and it really does not matter who is up there.

Our purpose as human beings is to reflect God.