Tag: Worship
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Order of Sunday Fellow-Hip
A number of years ago I ran across this satirical outline for all-too-common worship planning. It is a sad but almost realistic caricature of what takes place in many churches every Sunday. See if you recognize any of these things. *** Prologue Fellowshippers shall enter the sanctuary garrulously, centering their attention on each other, and…
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Why Do We Read Prayers & Creeds?
Why do we read prayers and creeds in our worship services? The answer is simple. It is because the WHOLE Church is called a priesthood. But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out…
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Now Why This Fear
Now why this fear and unbelief? Has not the Father put to grief His spotless Son for us? And will the righteous Judge of men Condemn me for that debt of sin Now canceled at the cross? Chorus Jesus, all my trust is in Your blood Jesus, You’ve rescued us Through Your great love Verse…
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Why Do We Come For Worship?
The answer to the question, “Why do we come for worship?” determines everything about the service. And it can only be answered one of two ways: We are in worship for God or we are there for man. If we come to worship for man, we become principally concerned with such questions as: Are we…
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Sentimentality in Worship
In his book, Worship: Together We Celebrate, Leslie Flynn notes: In many churches the art of worship has markedly declined. The so-called hour of worship has become a time when mind and emotions are anesthetized into neutral. Out of habit, church obligation, affection for the minister, peer pressure, family togetherness, patriotism, or community expectation, people…
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Some Guiding Principles for Worship
Most Christians would probably acknowledge that worship is important, essential even. But what exactly are we supposed to do? What is worship, exactly. Is it any thought or action offered to God? Below are a few simple thoughts that I hope will be helpful to shape your practical expectations… Corporateness God calls us to worship…
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Worship God Seeks
I wonder what would become of the worship wars in our congregations if we recognized the truth in what worship leader/songwriter David Ruis expresses: “The worship God is seeking relies completely on His initiative, knowing that the only true expression of worship is through the abandonment of all our agendas for His, as we trust…
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The Lord’s Day
by Archibald Alexander Reason teaches that there is a God, and that he ought to be worshiped. Had man remained in his primeval state of integrity, social worship would have been an incumbent duty. But it is evident that continual worship, whatever may be the fact in heaven, would not have been required of him…
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Steak on a Paper Plate
I am not sure I agree with everything he says, but Trevin Wax offers some very insightful thoughts worth considering about contemporary worship wars: More and more churches are focusing on the centrality of the Word in worship. The resurgence of Reformed theology among younger evangelicals, the reestablishment of a rock-solid belief in the inerrancy…
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Worship is the Proper Response
Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so. This side of the Fall, human worship of God properly responds to the redemptive provisions that God has graciously made. While all true worship is God-centered, Christian worship…
