I want to remind you of our worship together last week: It is essential that we learn to recognize who God is! Why? Because when we do, our automatic response will always be … worship. In a similar fashion, when we come to recognize all that God has done for us … we’ll be on our way to being true worshipers as well. Listen to Paul’s words to the church at Rome, from Romans, Chapter 7… “So the trouble is not with the law, for it is spiritual and good....
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...