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TITLE: Worship IS / IS NOT

TEXT: John 4:19-24

PROPOSITION: Jesus helps us define worship.

Introduction:

  1. In recent months – 2 large churches – added instruments to worship.

  2. One added a Saturday night service with communion and IM.

  3. Another added a service with and kept another without IM.

  4. Among churches of Christ many who do not understand what worship is.

Worship is: “A sacrifice of my feelings to God.”

  1. We know what we worship - vs. 22

    1. Before there can be worship – there must be knowledge

    2. Before we can worship – we must know the object of our worship

  2. God seeks worshipers – vs. 23

  3. We must worship in truth – vs. 24

    1. Truth = what God requires

    2. John 17:17 – Thy word is truth.

  4. We must worship in spirit – vs. 24

    1. Alive, vital, spirited

    2. Sing, pray, teach – with life and excitement

Worship is NOT:

  1. A place – a building, a location, an address

  2. A time – 10:00 am to 10:59

  3. A block of time – other things not worship – announcements, baptism

  4. A day of the week – Sunday

  5. An accident - You can not worship God accidentally

  6. Secondary – Worship must be your PRIMARY activity

  7. A body present when others worship

    1. Asleep – sick – think about lunch

    2. Present – but wish you were somewhere else

    3. Wrong frame of mind – angry, worried, not able to focus

Jesus teaches that our worship must have:

  1. The proper AIM

  2. The correct ACTION

  3. The ABSOLUTE obedience

  4. The right ATTITUDE

 

Outline from a lecture of Dan Winkler at FHU lectureship.


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