The Worship Leader | Christ In The Cosmos, Church & CultureSample

Jesus Leads the Cosmos Pt. 1 

God’s work and ministry is beyond time. Jesus’ role within the Trinity was present and at work even before the foundations of the world. The timelessness of this work means that creation was manifested out of and from the Trinity’s Worship Ministry, and it reflects the rhythms of his being and nature. The Kingdom of God’s habits are woven right into creation’s fabric.

Consider Genesis 1:1-5 “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.”

God as worship leader and minister of creation stepped down  to hover over and gather up the disheveled and darkened deep. He issued a call to worship and to gather. This is rhythm one of his leadership—He gathers. In Step 2 he filled all things with meaning—he spoke (then “God said…”). When God gathers all things to him, we come broken, dark, and void, and he makes us into something new. His Word transforms us. In considering the nature of his Word, we must see that all of creation embodies his personality, mind, imagination, thoughts, and intentions, and it points to him in every manner. 

Step 3, creation responded to his Word. Creation obeyed. In Step 4, God sent and assigned the light to its appointed place in space and time. All of creation thus sits in God’s hand. It is gathered, spoken to, it responds to him, and it is sent for his purposes. This rhythm is repeated hundreds of times throughout the Scripture (in fact, whole books of the Bible are organized around this pattern)—See also our resources at The Liturgy Project, as well as reading our YouVersion Study on The Liturgy of Scripture.