TH 357WO 314 Theology of Worship

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TH 357/WO 314Theology of Worship

• Class 2
• Worshiping the Triune God

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The Artists Toolkit 2009

• Three weekend seminars for musicians, dramatists,
  technicians, and lay leaders . . . Craftsmen of
  every age, ilk, and inclination. . .

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Presented by

• Prairie Bible College
• In cooperation with
• NVision

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Three Seminars

• Jan. 30-Feb.1 Music to Build Family
• Worship teams, vocal, choral, instrumental,
  arranging, composition

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Three Seminars

• Feb. 13-15 Technology to Build Family
• Video, sound, multi-media, recording, effective
  design and presentation

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Three Seminars

• Mar. 6-8 Drama to Build Family
• Improv, sketch, full length theatre, write plays

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NVision Presenters

• James Janzen, Prairie Christian Academy
• Kathy Covert, Prairie Bible College
• Vernon Charter, Prairie Bible College
• Cost 99 per seminar
• Earn up to 3 college credits (1 per seminar)

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Whats wrong with these statements?

• We come to church to worship.
• Lets begin our service with a time of worship.
• I liked the preaching, but the worship was a
  drag.
• Worship weekly at Community Baptist Church
  Sundays 1030 noon.

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Worship the Ultimate Priority

• the supreme duty of the creature for time and
  eternity is to worship the Creator. (John
  MacArthur)
• The primary work of the church is worship.
  (Robert Webber)
• Satan does not care what the church does so long
  as it does not worship. (Warren
  Wiersbe)

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What is worship?

• Wiersbe RESPONSE
• Peterson ENGAGEMENT
• Best OUTPOURING
• All of these assume a God who is the Initiator,
  who reveals himself, who seeks a relationship
  with us.

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A BASIC PARADIGM FOR WORSHIP GODREVELATION
RESPONSE In worship In
worshipGod reveals We respondHimself
and to God withcommunes our entire with
us. . . being. . .

WORSHIPER
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Harold Best Nobody Does Not Worship

• Definition Worship is the continuous outpouring
  of all that I am, all that I do and all that I
  can ever become in light of a chosen or choosing
  god (p. 18).

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Question 1

• Why is Bests assertion that Nobody does not
  worship an essential starting point for a
  theology of worship?
• Why is Bests choice of the word outpouring
  important to our understanding of worship?

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The eternal nature of God continuous outpouring

• God is the uniquely Continuous Outpourer (p. 21).
• Gods outpouring in creation (pp. 21-22)
• Gods outpouring and the Imago dei (pp. 22-23)

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Continuous Outpouring and the image of God (imgo
Dei)

• Genesis 126-31 Genesis 2
• Because God is the Continuous Outpourer, we bear
  his image as continuous outpourers.
• We were created worshiping (i.e. outpouring to
  the Creator).
• All are worshipers by creation--

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Continuous Outpouring and the Fall

• The Fall did not signal the end of worship.
• Our outpouring was falsified. But it continued,
  with one telling difference we exchanged gods.
• What does Christs redemption mean against this
  background?

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Continuous Outpouring and the image of God (imgo
Dei)

• NOBODY DOES NOT WORSHIP
• What are the implications for the way we think
  about worship?
• What are the implications for the way we live our
  everyday lives?
• What are the implications for the way we plan and
  carry out worship?
• What are the implications for the way we do
  evangelism?

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Torrance, Worship, Community and the Triune God
of Grace

• Why is the doctrine of the Trinity essential to
  our worship?
• How we worship God must reflect who God isthe
  triune God of graceand what he has done and is
  doing for us in Christ and by the Holy Spirit
  (p. 10).

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Question

• How has reading Torrance affected your
  understanding of worship?

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Key statement (p. 15)

• Christian worship is. . . our participation
  through the Spirit in the Sons communion with
  the Father, in his vicarious life of worship and
  intercession. It is our response to our Father
  for all that he has done for us in Christ.

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Key statement (p. 15)

• Worship is our self-offering in body, mind and
  spirit, in response to the one true offering made
  for us in Christ, our response of gratitude
  (eucharistia) to Gods grace (charis), our
  sharing by grace in the heavenly intercession of
  Christ.

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The real agent of worship

• The real agent in all true worship is Jesus
  Christ. He is our great high priest and ascended
  Lord, the one true worshiper who unites us to
  himself by the Spirit in an act of memory and in
  a life of communion, as he lifts us by word and
  sacrament into the very triune life of God (17).

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Christ, the leader of our worship

• Heb. 81-2 the Leitourgos (literally worship
  leader)
• What do we mean when we say that Jesus is our
  high priest?

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Chapter 1 WorshipUnitarian or Trinitarian?

• Why does the author maintain that much worship
  in the West is in practice, if not in theory,
  unitarian, not trinitarian?
• Why does it matter?

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