Spiritual Disciplines: True Worship John 4

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Spiritual DisciplinesTrue WorshipJohn 4
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True Worship Is

• not a place but a person

To worship God is to recognize his worth or
worthiness to look God-ward, and to acknowledge
in all appropriate ways the value of what we see.
The Bible calls this activity "glorifying God" or
"giving glory to God," and views it as the
ultimate end, and from one point of view, the
whole duty of man. James Packer
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True Worship Is

• not a place but a person

regardless of what else we are doing we are not
worshipping if we are not thinking about God.
Donald Whitney
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True Worship Is

• not a place but a person
• not the letter but the spirit

Worship cant be diagramed or calculated, for it
is the response of a heart in love with God. And
yet, we also must be able to think of worship as
a Discipline, a Discipline that must be
cultivated just as all relationships must be to
remain healthy and grow. Donald Whitney
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True Worship Is

• not a place but a person
• not the letter but the spirit
• TRUE worship
• Entire person

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• For worship is the submission of all our nature
  to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His
  holiness the nourishment of mind with His truth
  the purifying of imagination by His beauty the
  opening of the heart to His love the surrender
  of will to His purpose.
• William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury

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True Worship Is

• not a place but a person
• not the letter but the spirit
• TRUE worship
• Entire person
• Every activity

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This then is worship in its largest
sense PETITION as well as PRAISE PREACHING as
well as PRAYER HEARING as well as SPEAKING
ACTIONS as well as WORDS OBEYING as well as
OFFERING LOVING PEOPLE as well as LOVING
GOD James Packer
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True Worship Is

• not a place but a person
• not the letter but the spirit
• TRUE worship
• individual first, corporate second
• Gods highest priority