What is worship toward God?
A Living Sacrifice
Romans 12:1-2
Dedicated Service
"12 Therefore I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect."
What is our spiritual service toward God?
Our bodies a living and holy sacrifice to God.
To not be conformed by the world.
A transformed mind by knowing the scriptures and letting it (powerful words of God) change us.
I see nothing here about outward physical gestures and mantras, I do see, however, prayer and scripture reading for the purpose of becoming a transformed person.
2 Corinthians 5:17
"17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, this person is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come."
Rituals determined by men is not worship but legalistic gestures to make people feel like they have done something special. Fulfilling an obligation of outward gestures is not worship and does not please God.
People can go to church gatherings all their lives, sing the songs, repeat the prayers and bow before the altar and not be born again. They can do all the things expected of them by others and never ever worship God's Way, which is through the power of Jesus Christ in them continually being transformed as the one worshiping obeys God in their life.
Matthew 15:7-9 "…7 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you: 8‘ These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. 9 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ ”…"
