Folks, please remember from last week: If we want our worship together—corporately—to be all that God desires for it to be, we have to be about worship … every single day! We need to ‘do all to the Glory of God’… And we need to intentionally make worship a part of our everyday lives! But, even with that in mind, folks, are we yet worshiping the God of scripture? Is our idea of God today … God’s idea? Here’s the bottom line today: It is essential that we learn to...
So, what is worship to you? Let me remind you of Jesus’ words from John 4:23 (NLT) as we begin: “But the time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way.” For quite awhile, when I first heard this passage, I thought that God was looking for worship. Then one day I read it again and a light bulb went on; that’s not exactly what it said. Jesus didn’t use...
Let me begin with these questions today… Is it more important that we come to worship (Saturday/Sunday) … or that we truly become worshippers … in every aspect of our lives? What does God expect of us, when it comes to worship? And how important is worship to our eternal relationship with God? All pretty heavy questions … but ones we hope to answer during this series entitled “Born to Worship.” In case you weren’t aware, the DUMC has a 5-year ministry plan … working through various aspects of our...