Worship is to honour with extravagant love, and

extreme submission

Webster’s Dictionary 1828

“36For from him and through him

and for him are all things.

To him be the glory for ever!

Amen.”

Romans 11:36

Worship is to honour GOD with extravagant

love, and extreme submission

“Yet a time is coming and has now come when the

true worshippers will worship the Father in the Spirit

and in truth, for they are the kind of worshippers

the Father seeks”

John 4:23

Created for worship

“Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our

image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over

the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the

livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the

creatures that move along the ground.’”

Genesis 1:26

Created for worship

Created for worship

Created for worship Failed in worship

“When the woman saw that the fruit of the was

good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also

desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and

ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was

with her, and he ate it.”

Genesis 3:6

Created for worship Failed in worship

Created for worship Failed in worship Saved for worship

“Then the Lord said to Moses, ‘Go to Pharaoh

and say to him, “This is what the Lord says: let

my people go, so that they may worship me.”

Exodus 8:1

Created for worship Failed in worship Saved for worship

“Yet a time is coming and has now come

when the true worshippers will worship the

Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are

the kind of worshippers the Father seeks.

God is spirit, and his worshippers must

worship in the Spirit and in truth.’”

John 4:23-24

“The woman said, “I know that Messiah”

(called Christ) “is coming. When he comes,

he will explain everything to us.” Then Jesus

declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am

he.”

John 4:25-26

Created for worship Failed in worship Saved for worship

Worship Matters

‘New covenant worship is essentially the

engagement with God that he has made possible

through the revelation of himself in Christ (truth),

and the life he has made available through the

Holy Spirit (Spirit)’

Centred on Christ

Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious

duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which

can never take away sins.

But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for

sins, he sat down at the right hand of God ... for by one

sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being

made holy.

Hebrews 10:11-14

‘We do not turn inwards, looking for personal achievement

as the basis for eternal hope; Rather we turn upwards,

looking to the achievement of Christ on the cross, whose

work is finished and complete - this is the confidence that

should fill our churches with joyful praise and celebration.’

John Risbridger

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‘Let the message of Christ dwell among us richly

as we teach and admonish one another with all

wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from

the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your

hearts.‘

Colossians 3:16

Fuelled by the Spirit

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the

Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with

unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being

transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory,

which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 3:17-18

Centred on Christ

Fuelled by the Spirit

Centred on Christ

Fuelled by the Spirit

Experiential

I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power ... to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3:16

Centred on Christ

Fuelled by the Spirit

Experiential

Intimate

Centred on Christ

Fuelled by the Spirit

Experiential

Intimate Communal

‘Let the message of Christ dwell among us richly

as we teach and admonish one another with all

wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from

the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your

hearts.‘

Colossians 3:16

Centred on Christ

Fuelled by the Spirit

Experiential

Intimate

Communal