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Three years ago we first outlined our mission as a church.
We all have Matthew 28:19-20 as our great commission given by Jesus:
As the local church, we have own unique way of living out that commission.
Today, I want to recap the unique mission of Crossroads and challenge us in a few areas of that mission.
Here is graphic that sums it up:
Crossroads will:
Worship Jesus
Grow in our Faith in Jesus
Serve Others for Jesus
Tell Others about Jesus
There are two common factors in all four of these.
First and foremost is Jesus.
He alone is center to reason we do what we do.
The second is you and me.
Without each other, we cannot do any of these.
It requires a community of believers to do these things together.
In fact, you could even put the word together at the end of each of these:
Worship Jesus Together
Grow in our Faith in Jesus Together
Serve Others for Jesus Together
Tell Others about Jesus Together
In the old testament, the 2 Hebrew words most translated into our word worship have slightly different meanings.
One is to bow down and the other is to serve.
Over half of the original Hebrew word meaning of worship in the Old Testament is summed up in these 2 alternate translations.
In the New Testament, the Greek word most translated into worship is the word proskyneo and it is found 51 times.
The literal meaning of this word is to bow down.
What is interesting is that this word is only mentioned in the Gospels and Revelation where the physical bowing at the feet of Jesus is possible.
When worship is mentioned in the New Testament, the emphasis is more about the status of our hearts and our focus than it is about our physical condition or location.
Jesus alluded to this as he spoke to the women at the well...
Worship is not done in a specific place.
It is not done in a certain sitting/standing/kneeling position.
Worship is done in Spirit and in truth.
Worship is done no matter where we are or what position we find ourselves in.
When we hear the word worship we generally think of singing and music, but worship is more than that.
It is how we talk and live and work.
Worship is our recognition of who God is and what he has done for us.
There is a passage in Colossians that does talk about worship in the context of music:
Worship in the form of music has several purposes:
Teaches and admonishes one another - It is a source of learning as well as warning or admonishment.
We transfer wisdom to one another.
Notice that there is this sense of together in the singing and worship.
Our worship through songs to God should have gratitude as a source.
Three types of songs are mentioned:
psalms (psalmos) - songs of praise - mostly a reference to the songs inspired and written in the book of psalms.
We are to sing the Word of God
hymns (hymnos) - As much as we would like to think that the apostles liked to sing Amazing Grace and some of the other great hymns we know, that is not the case.
These songs were written hundreds of years later, yet we read that Jesus and his disciples sang a hymn at the last supper:
In this period of time, the word hymnos was a genre of music that was very secular.
The hymns most often sung were about battles and the other gods that were worshipped.
hymn is a reference to a song that was a poem set to music that was a fairly catchy and memorable tune.
songs from the Spirit - this is a reference to all other styles and types of songs, with the qualifier that the songs are from the Spirit.
The key to worship, is the attitude of our hearts.
We are to sing to God with gratitude in our hearts and we are to do it together, both for ourselves and for the building up of one another
That is what worship looks like.
Although I spent a lot of time on music and singing as worship, worship is not just our songs, it is all that we do.
Grow in Faith Together
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