Whether it’s a pop concert, football match, walk through the countryside or a simple meal with friends, we all express love or worship for the things we count worthy.

ALOVE takes this fundamental principle and entwines it with an ancient doctrine from the early church: worship is what happens when God’s people give their world back to God.

Worship has as all sorts of expressions as there are so many things to offer back to God; everything we are, everyone we know, everywhere we go and everything we do.

To live like this ensures that when we eventually do sing our songs and pray our prayers, we are expressing the reality of our every day lives, hopes and dreams. This allows us to worship in truth as the ideals and.shtmlirations we are upholding in our hymns are a reality in our behaviour. Worship is acknowledging that everything we have, God has given us, and that everything we have we want to give back.

ALOVE intends that its worship will meaningfully engage with contemporary culture. Confusion with this phrase can be overcome when we realise that much of what passes for culture is simply an attempt to worship. Early Salvation Army evangelism was all about meaningfully engaging worship: what God had done for our forefathers was so great that they were determined to give their lives back to him in worship, on street corners, in pubs, circus tents and theatres.

Our challenge is to voice that same heart through and in contemporary establishments and for each of us to discover what it is to worship God in our own part of the world.

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