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Weekday Worship |
Weekend Worship |
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Sunday Morning Worship – 9:30 a.m. Sunday Evening Worship – 5:30 p.m.
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Worship can refer to the whole life of the Christian. We are to live our lives for God and under God. We should seek to have all we do become loving service to him. The Apostle Paul had this sense of worship in mind when he wrote at the beginning of the application section of the book of Romans,
“Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices,
holy and pleasing to God—which is your spiritual worship. Do not conform any longer to the
pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind” (12:1-2).
In these verses all life is looked upon as worship.
Worship can also refer to those personal times of prayer, praise, reflection, or Bible reading when we focus on God. David worshiped as he prayed and sang alone at night:
"On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.
Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings." (Ps. 63:6-7)
We also worship as a family of believers when Christians gather officially as a congregation to praise God. This form of worship is commended and commanded in the Scriptures. “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” (Heb. 10:25). The Psalms celebrate this privilege of corporate worship:
"Praise the LORD.
I will extol the LORD with all my heart
in the council of the upright
and in the assembly." (Ps. 111:1)
Clearly God wants his people to gather as congregations, expressing that they are the body of Christ as they worship him with one another. God meets us in worship.