WORSHIP

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1 Chronicles 29:11 ESV

Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.

Romans 12:1 ESV

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.

Colossians 3:16 ESV

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

Hebrews 10:23–25 ESV

Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

hebrews 10:

Theology of Worship

Soli Deo Gloria

We are created beings.

Furthermore, we are created to worship our creator God.

Continuous Outpouring

We are always attributing value to things.

Worship is more than music on Sunday mornings or when you listen to your favorite church band.

Harold Best: “We begin with one fundamental fact about worship: at this very moment, and for as long as this world endures, everybody inhabiting it is bowing down and serving something or someone - an artifact, a person, an institution, an idea, a spirit, or God through Christ... ...We are, everyone of us, unceasing worshipers and will remain so forever.”

We begin with one fundamental fact about worship: at this very moment, and for as long as this world endures, everybody inhabiting it is bowing down and serving something or someone - an artifact, a person, an institution, an idea, a spirit, or God through Christ... ...We are, everyone of us, unceasing worshipers and will remain so forever.

From this we may gather that man?s nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols?Man?s mind, full as it is of pride and boldness, dares to imagine a god according to its own capacity; as it sluggishly plods, indeed is overwhelmed with the crassest ignorance, it conceives an unreality and an empty appearance as God.” John Calvin, Institutes, 1.11.8

“From this we may gather that man?s nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols?Man?s mind, full as it is of pride and boldness, dares to imagine a god according to its own capacity; as it sluggishly plods, indeed is overwhelmed with the crassest ignorance, it conceives an unreality and an empty appearance as God.” John Calvin, Institutes, 1.11.8

Sin distorts the rightful aim of our worship.

We are created to worship God alone.

Worship in Practice

Conscious Action

Disciplines to Foster Spiritual Formation

Corporate Importance

The importance of worshipping alongside other Christians

Gatherings & Music

Liturgy

Define:

Explain our liturgical flow at Veritas (from Foundations pg. 32)

Varying Style Preferences (i.e. pastoral opportunities from the survey)

Varying Style Preferences (oi.e.\\

We’ve already recognized that WORSHIP is more than music.

What would you say to people who feel excluded from worship because the songs are too hard to sing along with, hard to understand, feel extra-biblical, or the styling doesn’t fit a preference?

Asked another way, how can we worship together when people feel so differently about music? (Example, as many people who say we need more hymns, there are that many who say we have too many hymns.)

Besides singing, what are appropriate ways to respond in worship during a Sunday gathering?

What would you say to people who feel excluded from worship because the songs are too hard to sing along with, hard to understand, feel extra-biblical, or the styling doesn’t fit a preference?

What would you say to someone who feels they can’t dance or move because no one else is?

Asked another way, how can we worship together when people feel so differently about music? (Example, as many people who say we need more hymns, there are that many who say we have too many hymns.)

Besides singing, what are appropriate ways to respond in worship during a Sunday gathering?

There seems to be some confusion as to whether we’re supposed to be doing inward reflection or focusing on God during a worship gathering.

What would you say to someone who feels they can’t dance or move because no one else is?

There seems to be some confusion as to whether we’re supposed to be doing inward reflection or focusing on God during a worship gathering.

People need guided through the why of song selection, both in general (blend of traditional and modern) as well as in specific moments (why are we about to sing this song?)

People need guided through the why of song selection, both in general (blend of traditional and modern) as well as in specific moments (why are we about to sing this song?)

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Biblically Informed/Submitted

We believe it is vitally important to be faithful to Jesus and to His Scriptures in our liturgy, preaching, and music.

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