Bob Kauflin’s Definition of Worship:
(Christian Worship) is the response of God’s redeemed people to His self-revelation that exalts God’s glory in CHrist in our minds, Affections, and wills, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
Christian worship is different from every kind of worship because it has been made possible through Jesus Christ.
Revelation 5: 9-10, 13b:
“You are worthy to take the scroll, and open its seals, because You were slain, and with Your blood You purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. You have made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God, and they will reign on the earth.” “Blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, forever and ever.”
Christian worship is the response to what God has already done outside of us and inside of us that enables us to worship Him. We are not the initiator of worship: God is. (Acts 17:24-31)
23 For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: to an unknown god. So you are ignorant of the very thing you worship—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.
24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands.
25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.
26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.
27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.
28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’[a] As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’[b]
29 “Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by human design and skill.
30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”
And so we do not worship an “unknown god.” instead we worship the God who has done immeasurably much more than we can ever ask, imagine, or understand.
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