A Time for Worship

In this week’s reading a couple of different things stood out to me. The first thing that really impacted a lot of my thought process came from Gospel Worship. Jeremiah Burroughs added another ingredient to how we should be worshiping. He tells us here that not only should we have fear and reverence for God in worship but we should also be using humility in worship. He continued on by giving a list of ways that shows humility through the Spirit. (pg. 101-103)  Another thing Burroughs talks about is the fact that the Bible tells us that God is a Spirit; therefore, bodily worship is not the only type of worship we should be participating in. Because God is a Spirit we should be worshiping Him both in a bodily manner and spiritual manner. When we worship in just the body Burroughs say we might as well be doing nothing, however, if we are worshiping in the spirit then it is more significant because we are trying to be more God centered in our worship. (pg. 112) Worship in a church service should be spiritual as much as bodily. In today’s world we tend to not worship in a spiritual manner but only in a bodily manner.

At your church, in what ways, does the worship service prove that the church has a strong theological basis and knowledge, which allows more spiritual worship rather than bodily?