A couple weeks ago, I attended a MercyMe concert. I'm not that big of a MercyMe fan, but Fee was opening the concert and since I'm in a couple of worship bands, I was pumped about hearing them. They didn't disappoint. The worship was great. One moment we were raising hands, then next we were pumping our fists. The music was perfect, the vocals flawless. It was wonderful.

During the set, Fee did a modernized rendition of 'How Great Thou Art.' When the song reached the chorus, and we began to sing the words 'then sings my soul,' thousands of voices were raised up in worship to God, and hundreds of hands went up in the air. As I was singing the words to this powerful song, I couldn't help but feel a sense of deja vu, like I had sung the same words very recently, then I remembered.

Earlier that morning I was out at the abortion clinic. Now when my church and family go out to the abortion clinic, we don't yell at the women and doctor. We don't hold up signs of aborted fetuses. And we aren't antagonistic towards those who are going into the clinic. Instead, we ask the ladies if we can pray for them, and we tell the doctor we love him. We hold up signs that say 'we can help' and 'let us pray with you.' We also sing in front of the doors to the clinic in hopes that the words of the songs will spark something within the ladies there that would convict them and empower them to get up and leave.

Now I say all this because as I was singing 'How Great Thou Art' at the concert, standing in a beautiful church with thousands of other believers, I thought about that morning when I was standing in front of the abortion clinic. Instead of thousands of people singing, there were three of us. We weren't in a beautiful church, we were standing on a sidewalk. There wasn't any music, just our voices.We didn't sound great. I didn't feel close to God in that moment.

This could just be my cynical self coming to the fore, but I started to think about all those people who sang, those people who raised their hands in praise to God at the concert. It was easy to do there surrounded by thousands of Christians. But how many of these same people were at the prisons, the nursing homes, the abortion clinic in the previous week? You know what I think? The three voices at the abortion clinic raised in worship while trying to save babies are just as pleasing as the thousands of voices singing out at the concert.

I don't want to belittle praising God by singing. I believe that's important for us to do as Christians. But too often people sing songs, and don't do anything.

The purpose of this website is to awaken today's youth. If our generation is every going to awake, it's up to us. We must get out into the world. If we stay in our comfortable churches, going to our fun little youth groups, we will never bring about change in this world. God loves to be worshipped, but worship isn't only singing in church and raising our hands. If we do that, but don't actually serve those around us who are hurting, God is not pleased. If we want to win the world for Christ, we must go and do.