Quotes about Worship

David teaches us that we worship God before, during, and after our battles.

Respect for everyone he met. The preference of service over power. The rejection of violence. Israel—its Law and worship—as the primal source of meaning.

Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence that church is for God, about God, through God, and to the glory of His great Son.

When we ask people what they want in church instead of giving them what they were created to long for, we play in the very idolatry that church was created to dismantle.

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

The people sang to the Lord, not about Him.

If we believe God is present in our worship as He promises to be, then we must frame all language of worship as to Him and not merely about Him.

Churches closing at a rate of six thousand per year in North America are not doing so because of worship style or form of government or methodology. They are failing because regardless of your preference on those points, it's pointless to deny the true cause behind debates and divisions—a failure to love.

Church was never intended to be a place where we serve God to the exclusion of meeting with Him.

Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to Thee."

true encounter with the God of the universe makes me feel gladly small, perfectly puny, and happily so, in my assigned place and actual size! A true experience of eternity leaves us feeling, as C. S. Lewis said, "the infinite relief of having for once got rid of all the silly nonsense about your own dignity which has made you restless and unhappy all your life."28

From the furnace of manifest presence, born of unashamed adoration and unapologetic preaching, comes an army of worshippers unafraid in their witness, determined to see others discover what they have found in the LORD.