When we first meet God in the Bible, God is playing in the dirt, making mud-pies. Creation is not God at work, but God at play. Play is the oxygen for creativity, which sparks imagination, which ignites innovation, which combusts in paradigm shifts and sometimes detonates revolutions. We have made life and worship into a workzone of human activity rather than the playground of the Spirit who en-livens and en-spirits us. In this playshop (not “workshop”), we will explore how play is every worship leader’s secret weapon.
