Searching for Truth

Worship is perhaps the single most important activity that Christians participate in. Yet the New Testament teaching about worship is sometimes misunderstood. Worship is not simply an event that one attends or participates in, but rather it is essentially offering one’s life to God. Paul implores in Romans 12:1, “I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.” Jesus has said that God seeks a certain kind of worship. Paul speaks in this text of worship that God accepts. Notice some translations of Romans 12:1: •I beg you to offer your lives as a living sacrifice to him. Your offering must be only for God and pleasing to him, which is the spiritual way for you to worship. NCV •Offer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God, dedicated to his service and pleasing to him. This is the true worship that you should offer. GNT •…this is your spiritual...

Our Father in heaven is without equal. He is matchless, unique, and unrivalled in glory, splendor, and power. God is amazingly unfathomable, confoundingly immeasurable, and utterly inexhaustible. The brightest most brilliant stars in the universe pale in comparison to His glory. God cannot be fully grasped by finite human minds. He is at the same time both transcendent yet immanent; He is infinite yet intimate; His anger lasts for only a moment, but His favor lasts for a lifetime; He is all knowing yet capable of forgetting our sins He forgives; and He is both the One who executes justice and the One who pardons by grace. God is loving, merciful, holy, pure, righteous, gracious, kind, good, patient, compassionate and wonderful. He, and He alone is God. A. W. Tozer once said, “What the church needs today is a restoration of the vision of the Most High God.” As we come to understand His more, we are drawn closer to Him. As we behold His glory, we fall down and worship. As He becomes more...