Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because He is worthy, delightfully so.
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We Are All Idol-makers
Every one of us is, even from his mother’s womb, a master craftsman of idols.
The Character of God and Worship
Truly Satisfying Worship
When we believe that we should be satisfied rather than God glorified in our worship, then we put God below ourselves as though He had been made for us rather than that we have been made for Him.
Your God Is Too Small
Unless the conception of God is something higher than a magnification of our own good qualities, our service and worship will be no more and no less than the service and worship of ourselves. Such a God may be a prop to our self-esteem but is, naturally, incapable of assisting us to win a moral victory and will be found in time of serious need to fade disconcertingly away.
J. B. Phillips, Your God Is Too Small, p. 54
Worship Is the Most Selfless Emotion
Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of the conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with truth; the purifying of imagination by His beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose — all this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable.
The Infinite Value of Christ
The Word and the Music
Our churches … must recover the centrality of the Word in our worship. Music is a biblically require response to God’s Word, but the music God gave us was not given to build our churches upon. A church built on music — of whatever style — is a church built on shifting sands.
Mark Dever, What Is a Healthy Church?, p. 67
The True Audience of Our Worship
“…worship begins not with man as its focus, but God. Worship must be orchestrated and conducted with the vision before us of an august, awesome, holy, transcendent God who is to be pleased and, above all, glorified by our worship. Everything in our corporate worship should flow from this understanding.
R. Kent Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Man, p. 110
Worship Style Does Matter
Methods of worship and service do indeed matter: Uzzah’s corpse testifies to that.
Michael Barrett, The Beauty of Holiness, p. 5
Life Is Worship 