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Introduction
Illustration:
ILLUSTRATION: Coming home from camp
The things that were done when we had our most meaningful faith experiences become our favorite things.
If they’re good for us, they’re good for everyone
ILLUSTRATION: Invitation to a first century Christian to our Sunday worship
What would they encounter?
What would they say?
What is Church?
A group assembled for a purpose
Used broadly in culture: Assembly, meeting of a political body
A group assembled for a purpose (Matthew, Acts, Revelation, NT).
The entire group of Christians living in one place - the church in Jerusalem, Corinth, etc.
The universal called out people of God empowered by the Spirit to be present in the world sharing and living the good news of the Kingdom
Called out people empowered by the Spirit to be present in the world sharing and living the good news of the Kingdom
The community of the end time
Met in the synagogues or homes on - smaller, more intimate gatherings
Did not meet in buildings until the early 200’s.
CHALLENGE: TRANSLATING BIBLICAL PRACTICE FOR TODAY
Primary Activity: Worship
Entering God’s Presence
Primary Activity: Worship
Moses going into the Tabernacle, knew he was entering the presence of God.
Early church in - the building shook with the power of God.
Biblical worship was characterized with a holy expectancy.
The people believed they would hear the voice of God.
Engage
In worship we engage with, dwell upon and express the greatness, beauty, and goodness of God through music, words rituals, symbols.
To worship is to experience reality, to touch life.
It is to know, feel, to experience the resurrected Christ in the midst of the gathered community.
It is being invaded by the glory of God.
Worship is the human response to God’s initiative; our response to the expressions of life from the heart of the Father.
Our minds and hearts are filled with wonder.
Respond
Worship is an expression and witness of the reality of the Kingdom of God.
In the Greek world the word “church” designated an assembly of people, a meeting, such as a regularly summoned political body, or simply a gathering of people.
The specifically Christian usages of this concept vary considerably in the NT.
(1) In analogy to the OT, it sometimes refers to a church meeting, as when Paul says to the Christians in Corinth: “… when you assemble as a [in] church” (1 Cor 11:18).
This means that Christians are the people of God especially when they are gathered for worship.
In texts such as Matthew 18:17; Acts 5:11; 1 Corinthians 4:17; and Philippians 4:15, “church” refers to the entire group of Christians living in one place.
Often the local character of a Christian congregation is emphasized, as in the phrases, “the church in Jerusalem” (Acts 8:1), “in Corinth” (1 Cor 1:2), “in Thessalonica” (1 Thes 1:1).
(3) In other texts, house assemblies of Christians are called churches, such as those who met in the house of Priscilla and Aquila (Rom 16:3; 1 Cor 16:19).
(4) Throughout the NT, “the church” designates the universal church, to which all believers belong (see Acts 9:31; 1 Cor 6:4; Eph 1:22; Col 1:18).
It is clear from the NT as a whole that the Christian community understood itself as the community of the end time,
called out of both Judaism and the gentile world a new people, empowered by his Spirit to be present in the world, sharing the good news (gospel) of his radical, unconditional love for his creation (Eph 2:11–22).
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Worship is an expression and witness of the reality of the Kingdom of God.
Consuming Worship
Worship
Biblical worship was characterized with a holy expectancy.
The people believed they would hear the voice of God.
Looking for an experience that soothes the struggles, appeals to tastes, preferences
Willard, Divine Conspiracy.
Make the journey more comfortable; numb the pain
Be a safe place
Willard, Divine Conspiracy.
We don’t experience worship, we experience God and our response is worship.
“The question to ask isn’t ‘Did I experience God in worship?’
That is an important question.
However, the greater question is, ‘Did God experience MY worship today?’”
Jon Sterns
Jon Sterns
Build Up
Come together means come together for worship where any (not necessarily all) of them might be expected to take part in the service.
Edification - When the church gathers for worship, everything done must be for edification.
We build one another up so that all believers might become spiritually mature (Discipleship).
We build one another up so that all believers might become spiritually mature (Discipleship).
Grenz, Theology for the Community of God.
Grenz, Theology for the Community of God.
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Declaration in Worship: Telling one another of God’s Goodness
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Voicing their convictions, praise during the singing.
In these ways, Telling one another of God’s goodness. .
Music is a way to give emotional expression to what we can’t say with words alone.
Played on primarily string instruments
Music was and is important to worship as it is a way to give emotional expression to what we can’t say with words alone.
The music we create reflects deep thoughts, feelings, pain, joys, fears, hopes and expectations for life with Jesus.
Grenz, Theology for the Community of God.
Through it we offer God our feelings along with our beliefs in honor of the Lord.
Grenz, Theology for the Community of God.
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Voicing our convictions, praise during the singing.
Telling one another of God’s goodness. .
Grenz, Theology for the Community of God.
Order: The Key to Freedom
Order: The Key to Freedom
ILLUSTRATION: Coming home from camp
The things that were done when we had our most meaningful faith experiences become our favorite things.
If they’re good for us, they’re good for everyone
We have no way of knowing how typical of the whole church worship at Corinth was, but what we have here is considered to be the norm.
To provide an intentionally orderly framework for worship that unleashes people in their gifts, offers our very best to the Lord and that pleases him.
Theirs were more spontaneous and less structured and evolved over time to become moreso.
Prophetic
There was thus a variety of ingredients in the service.
But the guiding rule is ‘Let all things be done for edification.
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