TITLE:  Is Life Worship?
TEXT:  John 4:23-24
PROPOSITION:  There is a difference between life and worship.
QUESTION:  What?
KEY WORD:  Definitions
SCRIPTURE READING:  Same

INTRODUCTION:

1. God requires us to assemble and worship – Hebrews 10:25
2. We are also expected to life godly lives – Titus 2:11-12
3. There is a teaching of some that ALL of life is worship / service to God.
   It is in part a misunderstanding of Romans 12:1

Direction

1. Worship is action – active not passive – participants not spectators - WORSHIP
2. God is the object of our worship – GOD
3. Worship is essential to salvation – MUST
4. Our attitude must be correct – SPIRIT
5. Bible is our authority in worship – TRUTH

Definition

1. English word – “worth ship” – worthy of honor
2. Greek words
   1. Doxa – glory, glorify
   2. Eusebeo – to show reverence
   3. Threskeia – religious rituals, ceremony
   4. Therepeuo – to serve, to do service
   5. Latreuo – to serve
   6. Sebazomai – to revere or honor
   7. Porskuneo – to kiss toward – 59 times in NT

Departure

Quotes – See below

1. Romans 12:1 – service means – “sacrifices of things consecrated to God”
2. Some things are right in life, wrong in worship
3. Clear distinction in life and worship – Luke 4:8; Romans 1:25
4. We can “go to” and “return from” worship. – Acts 8:27-28
5. Men and angels – worship God and serve God
6. There are specific ACTS of worship
7. John 4 :24 does not fit this teaching (all life is worship)

Danger

1. It will de-emphasize worship
2. It ignores the authority principle in worship
3. It tends to make worship an attitude not an action

Doing the dishes, taking a shower, playing with the children, and watching TV are good things to do – but they are not worship.

“The Church enters the 21^st Century”, pages 90, 91

Quotes from some who say all of life is worship.

When one’s life is dedicated to God, whatever he does is worship/service. It is not a matter of “Lord, we come before Thee now,” for we are in Him and His Spirit is in us continually.

Since everything we do in life is worship, there are no such things as five acts of worship.

I have some problems with the idea of worship assemblies because all that we do is worship or service to God.

Worship isn’t singing, it isn’t preaching, it isn’t the Lord’s Supper, it isn’t praying, it isn’t giving. It isn’t even all of these things combined in a 60-minute period on Sundays.