Antioch Worship Interviewed
September 3, 2009 by acadmin
Filed under All, Antioch Recap
Pastor Kevin Seaton, Antioch Church’s Worship/Arts Pastor, was recently interviewed by Donna Brown of examiner.com.
Here is a preview of that interview. To read it in its entirety follow the links at the bottom of this post.
What made him want to worship?
Kevin grew up as a church geek. He led worship as a teen in the late 70’s- early 80’s. He knew at age 13 or 14 that worship was what God had called him to do. In high school he did all he could to train for it. He was in choirs, ensembles, band, and drama. He majored in music education so that, if he needed to, he could fall back on teaching. Ministry was his first choice and he has done that for 21 years.
A scripture that is a guiding force for him is Rom 12:1. Kevin talked about how in The Message translation it talks about presenting your body as a living sacrifice, how worship is getting up, going to work every day, etc. “We are who we are 24/7. God needs realness in His worship leaders and teams. The church deserves to see authentic people, not perfect people”.
Rom 12:1 The Message says:
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for Him. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.
“Rom 12:1 keeps ‘Kevin’ before the Lord”. (He pointed to himself meaning the person that he is) It also challenges him to teach the team that, “As much as they all love corporate worship and coming together as a church, everything we do should be an act of worship to God. What we see, hear, think, do – all is worship. It makes us think about a worship lifestyle when we look at it that way. ‘Whatever we do in word or deed, do all to the glory of God’ (Col 3:18).That is what the Lord is looking for, not an hour and half on Sunday morning. What have you done during the week?”
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