“Worship is the activity of glorifying God in His presence with our voices and hearts”.
Wayne Grudem

Worship Can Be…

• Musical

Why Music?

“The duty of singing praise to God seems to be given wholly to excite and express religious affections. There is no other reason why we should express ourselves to God in verse rather than prose and with music, except that these things have a tendency to move our affections.”
Jonathan Edwards

Music helps us to remember

Repetition?

“They asserted, however, that the sum and substance of their fault or error had been that they were accustomed to meet on a fixed day before dawn and sing responsively a hymn to Christ as to a god, and to bind themselves by oath, not to some crime, but not to commit fraud, theft, or adultery, not falsify their trust, nor to refuse to return a trust when called upon to do so. When this was over, it was their custom to depart and to assemble again to partake of food—but ordinary and innocent food.”
Pliny the Younger

Worship Can Be…

• Musical
• Praise
• Prayer
• By Ourselves
• In Our Community

Preferences?

1) It is easy to argue over secondary issues
2) True Worshipers will worship in spirit and truth
3) When we encounter Jesus, it is easy to try and deflect, but Jesus will turn it back around.