Tag Archives: Worship
The Word and Worship
Word and worship belong indissolubly to each other. All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His Name. Therefore acceptable worship is impossible without preaching. For preaching is making known the Name of the Lord, and worship is praising the name of the Lord made known. Far from being an alien intrusion into worship, the reading and preaching of the Word are actually indispensable to it.
John Stott, Between Two Worlds: The Art of Preaching in the Twentieth Century, pp. 81-82
The Centrality of Preaching in Worship
For worship to be directed to God, the worshiper must understand truth about God. That is why the preaching of God’s Word should be central in a worship service. It is why a believer must be studying the Word of God if he is to worship God with all of his life. Without understanding God, a person cannot worship Him.
Daily Worship
Music and liturgy can assist or express a worshipping heart, but they cannot make a non-worshipping heart into a worshipping one. The danger is that they can give a non-worshipping heart the sense of having worshiped. So the crucial factor in worship in the church is not the form of worship, but the state of the hearts of the saints. If our corporate worship isn’t the expression of our individual worshipping lives, it is unacceptable.
John MacArthur in Jerry Bridges, The Joy of Fearing God, p. 240
Preaching Is Worship
There is no worship of God that is better than the hearing of a sermon.
Worship and the Grace To Do It
If we are to worship in the beauty of holiness, we must worship according to what God defines as holiness. Grace gives us the desire and the ability to do it.
Brokenness Drives the Church
Brokenness is … the jewel of worship that is intended to drive the church…. In order to truly worship God you need to have a broken and contrite heart.
Fred A. Hartley III in K. Neill Foster & Douglas B. Wicks, eds., Voices on the Cross, pp. 57-58
Life Is Worship 