Our Acts of Worship

Introduction

Worship never stops. It’s what we’re designed to do! Why is it that we worship the way we do in our contemporary culture? What even is worship? Is it music or preaching? Is it acts of service? Is it communion or high liturgical acts?What does it mean to be a worshiper? What does it mean to be a church that worships?

Worship never stops. It’s what we’re designed to do! Why is it that we worship the way we do in our contemporary culture? What even is worship? Is it music or preaching? Is it acts of service? Is it communion or high liturgical acts?What does it mean to be a worshiper? What does it mean to be a church that worships?

What is Worship?

Worship is both Vertical and Horizontal.

It is about our relationship with God and with each other.

English Standard Version Chapter 13

15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.

16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

English Standard Version Chapter 13

15 sThrough him then let us continually offer up ta sacrifice of praise to God, that is, uthe fruit of lips that acknowledge his name. 16 Do not neglect to do good and vto share what you have, for such wsacrifices are pleasing to God.

English Standard Version Chapter 13

15 Through him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge his name.

16 Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God.

It edifies the believer

English Standard Version Chapter 15

2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

It is pleasing to God

Worship is active and not passive

It involves participation and not just “bench-warming”

English Standard Version Chapter 8

6 And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.

How we worship affects how we think about God

Final Exam for The Worshiping Church First Week—What Is Worship?

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us…man’s spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God. Worship is pure or base as the worshiper entertains high or low thoughts of God. For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most portentous fact about any man is not what he at any given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart conceives God to be like.”

Final Exam for The Worshiping Church First Week—What Is Worship?

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us

Tozer sees worship of God as something that affects how we see God. A healthy gathering body of worshipers will always contain elements of the Gospel message.

Old Testament Worship

Final Exam for The Worshiping Church, n.d.