Paul on Lifestyle Worship

Paul develops this thought further in Romans 12:1. As an appropriate response (“Therefore”) to all the wonderful “mercies of God” he has been explicating in chapters 1–11 of his epistle, he enjoins believers to present as their “bodies,” that is their entire lives, to God living sacrificial gifts of thanksgiving. There is to be no sacred/secular compartmentalization in the lives of Christians. Paul reminds us elsewhere that we have been “bought with a price,” and again the fitting response is to “glorify God in your bodies” (1 Cor 6:20). As “temples of the Holy Spirit,” both individually (1 Cor 6:19) and corporately as the church (1 Cor 3:16), the place of worship is always present with us, and the time for worship is always NOW: “Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Cor 10:31).

by Ron Man

Jesus on Lifestyle Worship

In John 4 Jesus makes a significant statement about the nature of worship under His Lordship. Jesus tells the Samaritan woman that “an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father” (v.21), but rather “an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth” (v.23). Jesus’ redirection of the preposition in from speaking of external location to internal focus is a grammatical shift of enormous spiritual significance: He is saying that He is changing the rules: no longer is it a matter of where or when you worship, but how you worship. No longer is there a geographical center for the people of God. Worship is now to be everywhere and at every time. As has been said, this is not a devaluing of times and places for corporate worship, but rather a hallowing of every time and every place as suitable for worshiping God.

by Ron Man

Seeing God

The more we see of God, the more we are moved to respond in love, praise, adoration and worship. He is inscrutable; He is beyond our tracing out, He is more than we could possibly “fashion” or understand. May He enable us to understand what we are capable of understanding so that we can turn it into praise!

by Preston Philpott

Agnus Dei in Farsi

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