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06/25/12
EQUIP - WORSHIP
Worship Leader - John Downing Speaks
Ps. Merri-Beth Alexander Speaks
Worship is an act of religious devotion usually directed towards a deity. The word is derived from the Old English worthscipe, meaning worthiness or worth-ship — to give, at its simplest, worth to something.[1]
Evelyn Underhill (2001) defines worship thus: "The absolute acknowledgment of all that lies beyond us—the glory that fills heaven and earth. It is the response that conscious beings make to their Creator, to the Eternal Reality from which they came forth; to God
Worship in Christianity
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[edit]Adoration versus veneration
In the New Testament various words are used for worship. The word proskuneo "to worship" means to bow down to Gods or kings.[4]
Catholicism, Anglicanism, Oriental Orthodoxy, and Eastern Orthodoxy make a technical distinction between adoration or latria (Latin adoratio, Greek latreia, [λατρεια]), which is due to God alone, and veneration or dulia (Latin veneratio, Greek douleia [δουλεια]), which may be lawfully offered to the saints. The external acts of veneration resemble those of worship, but differ in their object and intent. Protestant Christians, who reject the veneration of saints, question whether such a distinction is always maintained in actual devotional practice, especially at the level of folk religion.
Worship is more then music, worship is what you do with your life!
Worship is evidence of a life that is lived (devoted to) for God.
What does Jesus say about Worship?
Matthew 4:10
New International Version (NIV)
10 Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.’[a]”
Joshua 24:15
New International Version (NIV)
15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household,we will serve the Lord.”
1 Corinthians Chapter 2:
1When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] 2For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. 4My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, 5so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power.
The Apostle Paul writes in his first letter to the Church in Corinth that he knows nothing except Jesus Christ.
Paul knew that he had to set a strong message right up front, “It is all about Jesus!”
Nothing else matters because all things are subject to the authority and power of God.
Creating Atmosphere is really all about you cultivating your relationship with God.
Spending personal time in prayer and worship are spiritual food and supernatural steroids to the Christian life.
Your relationship with God will develop and your world and everyone you influence will be blessed because of your pushing into God.
Worship is the key to creating a Spiritually fruitful and fertile atmosphere.
Equally important is the removal of the walls and dividers in your life.
Look at it this way, from this point forward you are always in church.
No matter if you are at work or at home or at a ballgame. You carry the spirit of God with you where ever you go.
There is no one place to worship
John 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.”[c] 39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
The same way, worship will flow out of you. All true worship comes from and throughout the Spirit of God.
Great Resources:
Living with a creative mind, by Jeff Crabtree
Inspired to pray, by Phil Pringle
Relentless, by John Bevere
