TRUE AUTHENTIC WORSHIP (9 OF 12)
by Joey Rodgers
Scripture: Acts 16:16-34
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True Authentic Worship (9 of 12)
Series: Unstoppable
Joey Rodgers
Acts 16:16-34
There's much confusion today about worship. Should we sing w/ the lights on or off? Do we sing w/ a choir/orchestra or w/ a band? Do we sing hymns or contemporary songs?
But what if worship had nothing to do w/ music - or w/ our venues/technology? What if worship was an issue of the heart instead of a preference of style and content?
In Jn. 4, in His meeting w/ the Samaritan woman Jesus said:
A time is coming... when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they're the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth. Jn. 4:23-4
What does it mean to worship in the Spirit and in Truth?
In Acts 16, we find one of my favorite passages in the Bible regarding true Spirit-inspired worship - Paul/Silas in jail.
We're waist deep in Acts learning about the unstoppable power of the H.S. and how the Christian life is not a matter of human ability/ingenuity but surrender/submission to the H.S. This means the gift of salvation and the ministry of the church have never been, nor will ever be, a work of human skill, effort, or ability, but solely the work of the H.S.
The same is true of authentic God-honoring worship - it doesn't begin w/ us, it begins w/ God abiding w/in us. Listen to Jesus' words again in John 4:24 - God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
In the Spirit means true worship is inspired/authored by the H.S. abiding w/us - and our role is the surrender of our mind's ATTENTION, our heart's AFFECTION, our will's AMBITION, and our body's ACTION to the H.S.
I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God - this is your true/proper worship. Romans 12:1-2
offer (paristemi) to release. It's a technical term used by priests in the temple when they placed an an ...
Series: Unstoppable
Joey Rodgers
Acts 16:16-34
There's much confusion today about worship. Should we sing w/ the lights on or off? Do we sing w/ a choir/orchestra or w/ a band? Do we sing hymns or contemporary songs?
But what if worship had nothing to do w/ music - or w/ our venues/technology? What if worship was an issue of the heart instead of a preference of style and content?
In Jn. 4, in His meeting w/ the Samaritan woman Jesus said:
A time is coming... when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they're the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth. Jn. 4:23-4
What does it mean to worship in the Spirit and in Truth?
In Acts 16, we find one of my favorite passages in the Bible regarding true Spirit-inspired worship - Paul/Silas in jail.
We're waist deep in Acts learning about the unstoppable power of the H.S. and how the Christian life is not a matter of human ability/ingenuity but surrender/submission to the H.S. This means the gift of salvation and the ministry of the church have never been, nor will ever be, a work of human skill, effort, or ability, but solely the work of the H.S.
The same is true of authentic God-honoring worship - it doesn't begin w/ us, it begins w/ God abiding w/in us. Listen to Jesus' words again in John 4:24 - God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.
In the Spirit means true worship is inspired/authored by the H.S. abiding w/us - and our role is the surrender of our mind's ATTENTION, our heart's AFFECTION, our will's AMBITION, and our body's ACTION to the H.S.
I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God - this is your true/proper worship. Romans 12:1-2
offer (paristemi) to release. It's a technical term used by priests in the temple when they placed an an ...
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