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"This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me"
Generally understood by westerners as our thoughts. God desires to be worshiped for what is TRUE about Him.
understood as our emotions, feelings, and is considered fleeting.
OUR ENTIRE BEING
(including our physical bodies)
Making a conscious choice to honor God is equally valid to making an emotional choice to honor God
"while heart worship is most important, what we do with our bodies isn't irrelevant or unimportant. It's not enough to say, 'I'm worshiping God in my heart, and he knows it.' If I told my wife, Julie, that I love her, but never looked glad to see her, never hugged her, and never demonstrated my affection in any concrete way, she wouldn't be too impressed..."
Is there any physical expression of worship that God has given us and modeled for us in scripture that I've never displayed (privately or corporately)? If so, why?
Biblical Worship should be
Imagine if we were a community of believers who loved truth to such a degree that it deeply affected our emotions.
Imagine if our responses to God were an externally visible overflow of our internal being, and expressed with such authenticity that those visiting among us would be intrigued by our conviction.
Imagine if our God-Centered worship had such a significant impact on our brothers and sisters that times of gathering in worship were eagerly anticipated as an opportunity to encourage one another through the testimony of God's living and active work in our lives.
When you come together each one has a hymn...let all things be done for building up - 1 Corinthians 14:26
...addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs...
- Ephesians 5:19
Choosing a song because of what God has done this week
Choosing a song to encourage a friend
Choosing a song that stirs your affections for Jesus
Choosing a song that the Holy Spirit is prompting you to sing
What a Friend we have in Jesus,
All our sins and griefs to bear!
What a privilege to carry
Everything to God in prayer!
O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear,
All because we do not carry
Everything to God in prayer!