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I am so glad that you decided to come to church today.
Although if we were to get technical I am not so sure that coming to church is the correct term that we want to use.
That would imply that the church is a place.
That it is a building, that it is an entity all to itself.
Well it is not.
If we remember, there is a word that is used for church in the new testament and that word in the Greek is ecclesia.
The word ecclesia is the word that means to gather.
To assemble together.
And believe me when I say that the gathering, the ecclesia for the most part that we read about in the NT is not a term that has anything to do with a religious nature inherently.
No, ecclesia really means to get together.
A meeting, an assembly.
It could be for something religious but by and large ecclesia means to get a group together.
It could be a club.
It could be a group of friends.
It could be a team at work.
It has more to do with people just getting together more than it has to do with our understanding of a church, which for us is a place.
A holy place.
“You don’t want to say that in here, it’s a church!”
You can’t wear that here, it’s a church!
You can’t run in here, it’s a church!
Now I don’t want to say that we should be disrespectful in our gathering, but that is what it is, church isn’t a place, its a people.
That is one of the reasons we have the Gather sign out there.
It reminds us that when we come together and meet, we are gathering under King Jesus.
And so that is why this gathering could happen anywhere.
We are meeting here in a school.
It is a school, but within this school is an ecclesia, a gathering of people unified around Jesus Christ.
But we call it church.
We could meet at our house, we could meet at your house, it’s an ecclesia either way.
It’s a gathering.
And so then I guess we should ask What is the church?
If it isn’t a place then what is it?
What is the church?
Church is who you are, not something you go to.
The church is who we are, not something we go to.
Church is who we are, not something we go to.
The church is who we are, not something we go to.
Not something you go to.
The church is not about what we want but all about what God wants.
The church belongs to Him, not us.
And so God directs the church and we exist to worship Him and to carry out His desires, and His wishes.
So lets continue to talk about the church at Antioch where they have been growing and lets see what they are up to.
This is that church in Antioch that we talked about before.
They came into existence because of the persecution from Stephens death.
Barnabas is sent there by the church in Jerusalem to help them out.
He got Paul to go there with them and they have spent time there, at least a year.
And they are worshiping God, they are training people in Jesus, which is basically discipleship.
Remember that they are the first church where believers are called Christians.
They have grown.
We read a list of names of men (Which I think is on purpose).
These men who were in this church and if you study the names you find out that this church is very diverse.
Different colors, different races, different cultures and they are all worshiping God together in this church and it is a beautiful thing.
And then God shows up in the middle of their worship and the Holy Spirit speaks and tells them to set apart Barnabas and Saul for this work that God calls them to do it.
So that is what happens.
They worship through prayer and fasting.
Fasting explained in this context is that they went without food to worship the Lord.
They gave something up as a part of their worship.
They were giving up food.
Look, God shows up when we worship.
And worship isn’t just a slow emotional song, worship can be in every part of your life.
Every part.
It may bother some but I like hunting.
I hunt now.
And as I was hunting turkeys and no turkeys were showing themselves, I was worshiping.
Thank you God for this great earth and for the beautiful trees and for the smell of the woods.
All worship.
When you do things you love, you can involve worship in that.
When I kayak, I worship because it is fun and I love it and I thank God that I am enjoying something.
Worship is part of every day life.
And God shows up in it.
And Remember this.
Worship costs something.
This is the basic nature of worship.
And if we look at the nature of worship we see that there is always something that is being given up when worship happens.
The woman who poured out a years salary worth of perfume onto Jesus was worshiping Him.
What does it cost us?
For us when we worship we are giving up some time, yes.
But that isn’t really all that hard is it?
Some of us when we worship we are raising our hands and that is scriptural worship.
There is nothing negative when it comes to surrendering ourselves to God by lifting our hands to him.
Doesn’t make us weird, it makes us worshippers.
I would encourage people to raise their hands in worship.
Again, because it is Scriptural.
but I understand that for some that is very uncomfortable and that means that you are giving up some comfort to worship God.
But what is more important?
Your comfort and your dignity?
Or the true worship of your God?
David’s wife Michal criticized David for how he worshiped God.
When true worship happens something is given up.
Look at the worship if David, a man after God’s own heart.
He dances before the Lord and the word says that he dances with ALL HIS MIGHT!
That is some dancing.
There is a freedom and a joy that David experiences when he worships the Lord.
Remember David wasn’t perfect.
He was just loving his God in the way that he knew how.
He showed it.
He didn’t care what others thought.
HE shows his love for God.
His wife is embarrassed by David and here is his response.
22 I will become even more undignified than this, and I will be humiliated in my own eyes.
Now I feel like I should say that it all begins with your heart.
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