True worship, therefore, must begin with a heart attitude of bowing or prostrating oneself in adoration and reverence before the One Who is being worshiped.
The Worship Service: A Hindrance or a Highway for Revival, Revival Commentary, v. 2, n. 2.
There is one fundamental reason why the living God wants His people to assemble in worship: that is, to ascribe to Him the worth and value that are His, individually and as a body, and to present their bodies as living sacrifices. Worshiping God is not a means to an end; it is an end in itself!
The Worship Service: A Hindrance or a Highway for Revival, Revival Commentary, v. 2, n. 2.
God…is our “audience” in worship. It is His approval that we are to seek.
The Worship Service: A Hindrance or a Highway for Revival, Revival Commentary, v. 2, n. 2.
There is no place in a worship service for entertainment. The people are not in need of seeing how clever man is, but how holy God is… In entertainment the focus is on man, while in worship the focus is always on God.
The Worship Service: A Hindrance or a Highway for Revival, Revival Commentary, v. 2, n. 2.
Our drive to evangelize and our desire to grow numerically have led us to “use” worship as a tool to reach the lost. We have gone so far as to turn our worship services, as opposed to evangelistic services, into "seeker-friendly" meetings, so the world will feel at home when they come into the house of God. We should always be sensitive to the unsaved, but nowhere in Scripture are we told to accommodate the world in what God calls the believer to offer to Him.
The Worship Service: A Hindrance or a Highway for Revival, Revival Commentary, v. 2, n. 2.
Worship, as we find it in Scripture, is the exclusive right, privilege, and responsibility of the child of God. It is spiritually impossible for an unbeliever to worship. The prevailing idea that the church needs to sound like the world in order to win the world demonstrates a serious misunderstanding of what church really is. It demonstrates more concern with what the world thinks than with what God thinks.
The Worship Service: A Hindrance or a Highway for Revival, Revival Commentary, v. 2, n. 2.