Our Pastor Dr. Johnny Hunt has been preaching through the DNA of our church for the month of March. He is half way through his series, but he has spent the last two weeks on Worship. Before he started the series, he asked me to research some definitions or statements on worship. Here are some of the best of my findings. I hope they are as challenging to you as they were to me!
“Worship is the believer’s response of all that they are – mind, emotions, will, body – to what God is and says and does.” (Warren Wiersbe, Real Worship, p. 26)
William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (1942-44), wrote: “Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by his holiness; the nourishment of mind with his truth; the purifying of imagination by his beauty; the opening of the heart to his love; the surrender of will to his purpose – and all of this gathered up in adoration.”
In the process of being worshiped… God communicates his presence to men. – C. S. Lewis
God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship. – A. W. Tozer
Worship changes the worshiper into the image of the One worshiped. – Jack Hayford
Worship does not satisfy our hunger for God – it whets our appetite. – Eugene Peterson
A private relationship of worshiping God is the greatest essential element of spiritual fitness. – Oswald Chambers
“Worship is an active response to God whereby we declare His worth.” “Worship is not simply a mood; it is a response. Worship is not just a feeling; it is a declaration.” – Ronald Allen
“Worship ‘is something we do, not just something we attend. It is not merely an issue for the pastor and other ministers, nor for the musicians and those who plan the service. Worship is an issue for the entire congregation, for worship is something we do together.” – Albert Mohler
