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Over the next several weeks we will be walking through the following Spiritual Disciplines:
Bible Intake
Prayer
Worship
Evangelism
Serving
Stewardship
Fasting
Silence and Solitude
Journaling
Learning
Perseverance in the Disciplines
Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, Revised and Updated. (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress; Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2024)
The book that will guide our study: GET IT AN READ IT!!!!! We have a few available at church.
Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life – Amazon Link
Worship. The act of adoring and praising God, that is, ascribing worth to God as the one who deserves homage and service. The church, which is to be a worshiping community (1 Pet 2:5), expresses its worship corporately and publicly through prayer; through psalms, hymns and spiritual songs; through the reading and exposition of Scripture; through observance of the sacraments; and through individual and corporate living in holiness and service.[1]
The word worship descends from the Saxon word weorthscype, which later became worthship. To worship God means to ascribe the proper worth to God, to magnify His worthiness of praise, or better, to approach and address God as He is worthy. As the holy and almighty God, the Creator and Sustainer of the universe, the Sovereign Judge to whom we must give an account, He is worthy of all the worth and honor we can give Him and then infinitely more.[2]
Worship is… Focusing and Responding to God
The more we focus the more we value His worth
Scripture is the key to worship. It is how He reveals Himself.
It puts our focus on God
Worship is… Done in Spirit and Truth
Born again. Worship is for believers.
Done in Spirit – HEART. Passion. Intimacy. Desire to know Him. Personal
Inward. Psalm 37:4. Delight yourself in the Lord
Done in Truth – HEAD. Substance
Deep…not just wide. Truth of His Word
Passion and Theological Soundness
The Balance
EMOTION ONLY
FACT ONLY
Worship is… Expected both Publicly and Privately
With Others – Church. Corporate Worship
Alone – Personal Devotional Life
We need both. A desire to DO BOTH. ONE FITS WITH THE OTHER
Worship is… A Discipline to be Cultivated
Not legalism…I HAVE TO
But devotion… I WANT TO
[1] Stanley Grenz, David Guretzki, and Cherith Fee Nordling, Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1999), 122.
[2] Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, Revised and Updated. (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress; Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2014), 103–104.
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