Apostoic worship??

[Esaias]

Originally Posted by votivesoul

I was recently asked to attend a meeting and teach from the Holy Scriptures. And since I was following up with this thread at the time, and had been reading through Esaias's posts some pages back regarding the Biblical definition of worship, I decided to talk about worship.

The very short version is as follows:

Worship is obedience to the Lord Jesus and the commandments of God.

A bit longer version looks like this:

Singing, jumping, dancing, clapping, shouting, and the like, can all be faked. Some can do that and not be right in their heart. Turning the other cheek, being reconciled to a brother or sister is more an act of worship than any demonstrative thing we can do bodily when a worship leader tells us it's time to "Praise the Lord" then dives into a four song an we're out, time for announcements, type of setting.

In this thread I have been focused on the corporate acts of divine service more so than the individual acts of worship (such as alms, obedience to God's commands, etc). They must all be in place to be a true worshipper of God, otherwise, our service is defective. We should not ignore one class in favour of another.