What is Worship

The definition of worship: "respectful devotion—loving, honoring, and obeying someone who deserves our highest regard"

We do this every time we speak of Christ as we honor him through obedience to Him.

The born again believer worships in "Spirit and in Truth", no outward rituals are required for this mindset of worship.

The only rituals God gives us in our worship is the Lord's supper which Christ commanded us to do in remembrance of Him. And, the ritual of baptism to declare to others our new life in Christ as well as the head covering for the woman and lack of head covering for the man in the gathering as a representation of the woman as the church and the man as Christ.

There are no other outward rituals God commands for the believer. We need no buildings built to meet in, no vestments for men to wear, no special prayers devised by men, no knee bowing at the pew or any other outward sign. Our devotion to Christ is not in ritual but in heart loyalty to Christ and all His commands and principles. We add no human ideas to His, we do not take away from His commands to make them palatable to our culture.

What a freedom and peace we enjoy when we just follow Christ alone.

Peace With Christ in All Situations

As we walk away from those who are contentious and they walk away from us because we are sold out to Christ, there will be a sense of new freedom and peace because of their absence.

 
Being alone is preferable to being stuck in the continual drama about nothing important. But we are never alone because Christ lives in us and He is everything we need.

 
We don't worry about the future because we know Christ will give us what we need when we need it, our faith in this sustains us.

 
Philippians 4:19 "But my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus".

 
When things get rough and our "feelings" run amuk we can ignore them because we know rationally that God knows about it and what comes next. He will never leave us alone to flounder in fear and unsure about the future. We walk by faith in Christ, not by sight in what we see with our eyes.

 
2 Corinthians 5:6-10 "6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—
7 for we walk by faith, not by sight—
8 but we are of good courage and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
9 Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive compensation for his deeds done through the body, in accordance with what he has done, whether good or bad."

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