Part 2: Wired for Worship | Committing to a Lifestyle of Worship

The 5 Purposes of the Church

1. Cultivate authentic community.2. Experience worship as part of your daily

lifestyle.3. Take successive steps of spiritual growth.4. Practice personal stewardship.5. Reach out to the world around us.

Acts 2:42-47(NIV)

42 They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.43 Everyone was filled with awe at the many wonders and signs performed by the apostles. 44 All the believers were together and had everything in common. 45 They sold property and possessions to give to anyone who had need.46 Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, 47 praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Colm Meaney

Revelation 4:9-11(NIV)

9 Whenever the living creatures give glory, honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne and who lives for ever and ever, 10 the twenty-four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him who lives for ever and ever. They lay their crowns before the throne and say:

11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power,for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”

Revelation 7:9-12(NIV)

9 After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out in a loud voice:

“Salvation belongs to our God,who sits on the throne,and to the Lamb.”

Revelation 7:9-12(NIV)

11 All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying:

“Amen!Praise and gloryand wisdom and thanks and honorand power and strengthbe to our God for ever and ever.Amen!”

1. We were wired for worship.

Worship is: reflecting well orgiving glory to your maker.

Hebrews 10:24-25(NIV84)

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25 Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

2. God’s will is for us to gather weekly.

Romans 12:1(NIV84)

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship.

3. Worship is a verb.

Colossians 3:23(NIV84)

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men,

Romans 12:1(The Message)

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering…