Thursday, December 6, 2012

The priests were not able to continue ministering

And because of the cloud, the priests were not able to continue ministering, for the glory of the LORD filled God's temple. 2 Chron. 5:14 What brings this kind of presence? How do we get to that point where His Glory fills the temple? I believe there are two things that are needed to be done with excellence and reverence. Corporate Worship In our weekly services we seek to glorify and exalt the name of Jesus Christ, lead people to recognize his worth and celebrate His sacrifice, and prepare hearts to hear from God through the preaching of the his Word. We seek to accomplish this with an emphasis on excellence, creativity and authenticity, for we know God is worthy of our very best. We seek to worship God in spirit and in truth. Therefore we are careful to examine our worship elements in light of Scriptural truth, while also seeking to engage the heart and spirit. Personal Worship Worship is about connecting and communicating with God, and attributing worth to him. Our goal is to become worshipers, not just on Sundays, but every day of the week. Through quiet times, reading God's Word, family worship times and personal creative expressions that give God glory for who he is, we seek to become true worshipers. Sundays are a collective outpouring of what we practice during the week. Jerry Bridges writes, "The vitality and genuineness of corporate worship is to a large degree dependent upon the vitality of our individual private worship. If we aren't spending time daily worshiping God, we're not apt to contribute to the corporate experience of worship. If we aren't worshiping God during the week, how can we expect to genuinely participate in it on Sunday? We may indeed go through the motions and think we have worshiped, but how can we honor and adore One on Sunday whom we have not taken time to praise and give thanks to during the week?? If worship is giving all of ourselves to God, then everything we do is potentially an act of worship. So how we live our lives is how we praise God. Everything we do is worship when we do it for Him, displaying His face as we go. The question is not IF you worship, but WHAT you worship. Your calling is to turn your place in life into a place of true worship. To do whatever you do in a way that will reflect God's heart to those around you. It's to worship "as you live your life." Thanks to SCBC

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