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WORSHIP

WORSHIP. Worship. “To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God” (Richard Foster). Worship.

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WORSHIP

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  1. WORSHIP

  2. Worship • “To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God” (Richard Foster).

  3. Worship • “The true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for such is God the Father seeks to worship him” (John 4:23). • “Worship is the human response to the divine initiative” (Richard Foster)

  4. Worship • What we must see is that the real question in worship is not, “what will meet my need?” The real question is, “what kind of worship does God call for” (Richard Foster).

  5. Worship • “Singing, praying, praising all may lead to worship, but worship is more than any of them. Our spirit must be ignited by the divine fire” (Richard Foster). • “You shall worship the Lord your God and him only shall you serve” (Matthew 4:10). • “You shall have not other Gods before me” (Exodus 20:3).

  6. Worship • “Love the Lord your God will all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength” (Luke 10:27). • “If we long to go where God is going and do what God is doing, we will move into deeper, more authentic worship” (Richard Foster).

  7. Worship • “Go, even if you don’t feel like it. Go, even if worship has been discouraging and dry before. Go, praying. Go, expecting. Go, looking for God to do a new and living work among you” (Richard Foster).

  8. Worship • “I cannot imagine how religious persons can live satisfied without the practice of the Presence of God” (Richard Foster).

  9. Worship • “When more than one or two come into public worship with a holy expectancy, it can change the atmosphere of a room. People who enter harried and distracted are drawn quickly into a sense of the silent Presence. Heart and minds are lifted upward. The air becomes charged with expectancy” (Richard Foster).

  10. Worship • “Genuine worship has only one leader, Jesus Christ” (Richard Foster).

  11. Worship • “If we are accustomed to carrying out the business of our lives in human strength and wisdom, we will do the same in gathered worship. If, however we have cultivated the habit of allowing every conversation, every transaction to be divinely prompted, that same sensitivity will flow into public worship” (Richard Foster).

  12. Worship • “No less than forty-one psalms command us to “sing unto the Lord.” If singing can occur in a concentrated manner it serves to focus us. We become centered. Our fragmented minds and spirits flow into a unified whole. We become poised toward God” (Richard Foster).

  13. Worship • “God calls for worship that involves our whole being. The body, mind, spirit, and emotions should all be laid on the altar of worship. Often we forget that worship should include the body as well as the mind and the spirit” (Richard Foster).

  14. Worship • “Learn to practice the presence of God daily. Really try to follow Paul’s words, “pray without ceasing.” Punctuate every moment with inward whisperings of adoration, praise, and thanksgiving.

  15. Worship • Have personal times of inner worship and confession and the Bible study and attentiveness to Christ, the present Teacher. All this will heighten your expectancy in public worship because the gathered experience of worship just becomes a continuation and intensification of what you have been trying to do all week” (Richard Foster).

  16. Worship • “Cultivate holy dependency. Holy dependency means that you are utterly and completely dependent on God for anything significant to happen” (Richard Foster).

  17. Worship • “When people are gathered for genuine worship they are like a heap of fresh and burning coals warming one another as a great strength and freshness and vigor of life flows into all” (Richard Foster).

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