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Giving Your All
Today we most commonly think of Christian Worship as only one thing; Sunday morning church service. We have had a change over the last twenty years, like never before, in how the Sunday morning worship service was going to be acted out. We have seen churches split apart over the style of music used in the worship services. We are now seeing a new kind of service, and church for that matter, that is modeled after what some believe to be the book of Acts model.
But is Sunday morning the only time we are to worship God? Do we worship him in our daily lives and work? Do we give our all to honor him? Lets explore worship and see what it really is.
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But is Sunday morning the only time we are to worship God? Do we worship him in our daily lives and work? Do we give our all to honor him? Lets explore worship and see what it really is.
< Back to Spiritual Disciplines Lens or Chapter 2 The Discipline of Simplicity >
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind (Luke 10:27)
Family Worship at Home
One of the best ways to help your chilcren learn about their faith is through family worship time. This is not a hard time to manage it is a time for simple instruction and bible reading.
What You Will Need
Time- make time each week to instruct your children and help them understand the bible
Bible- Read to them and explain what the basic passage is saying
That is ityou can memorize a verse for the week or work on the weekly memory verse they got from church. what ever you do don't get caught up in life or expect the church to be the only place your children learn about their faith.
One of the things my family does during some of our family worship time is use worship dvds. We use these because none of us can play an instrument or really lead worship. These dvds have the words right on the screen where we can just read sing and worship.
What You Will Need
Time- make time each week to instruct your children and help them understand the bible
Bible- Read to them and explain what the basic passage is saying
That is ityou can memorize a verse for the week or work on the weekly memory verse they got from church. what ever you do don't get caught up in life or expect the church to be the only place your children learn about their faith.
One of the things my family does during some of our family worship time is use worship dvds. We use these because none of us can play an instrument or really lead worship. These dvds have the words right on the screen where we can just read sing and worship.
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What do you value?
Not everyone that says they worship God actually worships Him. We see so many people today that go to church only show up there because they get a good feeling from the experience or out of duty to someone (maybe to God). They go to a house of Worship but do not actually worship the God they go to see. How do we determine this? Look at the divorce rate or the teen pregnancy rate or the drug and alcohol abuse rate in the church at large. For every pastor that gets caught with drugs or porn there are ten more that have not been.So what does this have to do with worship?
Look at the verse in the box above. We worship what we love. We pour or affection into what we love. One of the reasons I say the Church in America has become a laughing stock is because we love the world and all it has to offer and we put God and Jesus on the back burner. When we say yes to Christ we begin a discipleship where we learn from him. If we do not love Him then how can we learn anything from Him?
Let's go back for a minute. If you came to this lens from the Spiritual Disciplines lens then you know that I asked you to read the 23rd Psalm during the week. Verse 1-3 says:
1The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
3He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. (KJV)
How are you going to let someone lead you if you do not love them? How can you read this and worship him for leading you if you do not love him? in verse 4 it says, "thy rod and thy staff comfort me." How can you say that if you are trying to buck the system and lead yourself.
Worship is about love, we will worship and need what we love and we will shun and deny what we do not.
Books to Help With Your Worship
I started this list with a couple of books that I have used to get perspective in worship. They are devotional in feel. If you have other books (yes the bible is the best one to use) that you use feel free to add them.
Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist by John Piper
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Devotional Classics: Revised Edition: Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups by Richard J. Foster
A New, Expanded Edition of Renovaré's Classic Com more...0 points
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