Worship

To worship is to experience reality, to touch Life. It is to know, to feel, to experience the resurrected Christ in the midst of the gathered community. It is a breaking in to the Shekinah of God, or better yet, being invaded by the Shekinah of God.

Worship is human response to Divine initiative.

To think rightly about God is in an important sense to have everything right. To think wrongly about God is in an important sense to have everything wrong. We desperately need to see who God is.

If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.

We need to have holy expectancy when we come to worship.

All thought and conversation throughout the day can be with God.

I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the presence of God.

Brother Lawrence

We are to live in a perpetual inward listening silence so that our words and actions have their source in God.

Often we have forgotten that worship should include the body as well as the mind and spirit. The Bible describes worship in physical terms. The root meaning from the Hebrew word we translate as worship means 'to prostrate'.