Growing Worship Part Two Review Knowing Growing Understanding

Growing Worship Part Two

Review • Knowing, Growing, Understanding, Living, Giving • God’s plans work best • Bible Study, • Prayer • Stewardship

Worship Review • Two things necessary for worship • Spirit—the emotional from the heart devotion and mental ascent focusing upon spiritual things • Truth—the physical actions that our behavior is according to God’s word. • Must come from the heart to be effective.

Public Assembly Worship • • Purpose: Is to glorify God Is to focus upon God Is to help us do that: In a meaningful way In a heartfelt way In a spiritual way

Public Assembly Worship • Problem: • Doing the same things over and over cause us to fall into a rut. • We must find ways to keep ourselves in the proper frame of mind. • Others try all sorts of new innovations just to spice up the service or to make changes for the sake of making changes.

Public Assembly Worship • New is not the answer. Most everything new is unauthorized by scripture. • Our minds must be renewed each day. • Our minds must focus upon spiritual matters more that we take the time to do. • How do we get out of the rut? • With diligence.

Public Assembly Worship • Prayers offered on behalf of the congregation or those in attendance. • Proper subjects for all people. • Teaching is involved in prayer. • Addressing the object of our worship. • Requesting favors from God.

Public Assembly Worship • • Singing: From the heart and with understanding Scriptural songs Meant to teach, edify, and admonish each other. • Meant to glorify God • Build up our spirituality.

Public Assembly Worship • The observance of the Lord’s Supper, also called a memorial feast. • To remember the Lord’s death– the sacrifice offered to God for our sins. • To do this on a regular basis—so we don’t forget. • To commune with each other in a spiritual action.

Public Assembly Worship • Giving of our means • Collection for the church • Not per se an act of worship, but a contribution to the work of the church. • To apply the principles of stewardship. • In the end, God sees any sacrifices we make for others and the local church.

Public Assembly Worship • • Public preaching (reading of Scripture) Evangelism, Edification, Positive, Negative, -- balanced. Informative, reproving and rebuking if necessary, exhortation. • To help people cope with this life and the problems people make of it.

Public Assembly Worship • The people involved in each part of our worship can make or break the rhythm or impact of the service. • Song leaders, • Those who lead prayers • Doing the Lord’s supper • Preachers • How to collect funds

Public Assembly Worship • How each of these are done, and the order of each activity, is up to the individual congregations. • Each of these (five) items are a form of worship. • But our assembly is not limited to these five things—most of the time we only do three of these things in our assembly. • Sometimes we do additional things.

Conclusion • Public assembly worship is commanded. • We have examples from scripture how it was done with the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the apostles. • That serves as a pattern. • The five acts of worship. • Next lesson: realize that worship is not limited to the public assembly. • Invitation.