Pastors, how many times has your congregation come up to you and say how they enjoyed the worship service or enjoyed your sermon? I know I hear that from time when I have preached. It amazes me how people in the church enjoy the worship service more than worshiping God.
When was the last time we challenged our people to enjoy the worship of God Himself and not how we do it? To be honest, I can never remember any pastor of any service I have been apart challenging the church to do that. We have this tendency to think that a worship service is something we are to enjoy and energizes us as the week begins. In the reality, the worship service should be a service where we worship God not our styles, the songs we love (how many Chris Tomlin songs are you singing per service?), or if your favorite soloist comes up to sing.
The fact is our worship should declare the worth of God by saying how worthy of all our praise is and thanking Him for His gift of salvation through Jesus. The psalmist wrote:
Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
ascribe to the Lord glory and strength!
Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
bring an offering, and come into his courts!
Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness;
tremble before him, all the earth! (Psalm 96:7-9)
The church is called to give God glory and enjoy worshiping Him not to enjoy a service. My prayer for every worship service is the congregation will leave declaring we serve a great God not how much we enjoy a worship service.
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