Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 13)

Lifestyle Worship, New Testament, Praise, Revelation and Response

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 7  (July 2014) 18. WORSHIP IN THE GENERAL EPISTLES a. 1 Peter 2:5    Spiritual Sacrifices You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. The Church arose within the context of 1st-century Judaism; but as the book of Acts relates, the rejection of the gospel by most […]

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 12)

Christ and Worship, Hebrews, Incarnation, New Testament

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 6  (June 2014) 18. WORSHIP IN THE LETTER TO THE HEBREWS Hebrews is a whole world of its own when it comes to New Testament teachings about worship. Here are some testimonies to its greatness and uniqueness: Hebrews presents the most complete and fully integrated theology of worship in the New Testament. All the important categories of Old Testament thinking on this subject—sanctuary, sacrifice, altar, priesthood and covenant—are

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 11)

Christ and Worship, False Worship/Idolatry, Gospel, Praise, Revelation and Response, Salvation, Word and Worship

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 4  (April 2014) 14. Turning from False to True Worship (1 Thessalonians 1:8-10) Too often we talk about the gospel only in negative terms: that is, how it saves us (and gloriously so!) from sin, death and hell. But it is important to realize and to emphasize that we are not just saved from something, but also to something: to a personal relationship with our

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 10)

Christ and Worship, Church, Glory of God, Holy Spirit, Music, Praise, Word and Worship

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 3  (March 2014) 9. TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY (Ephesians 1:3-14) After his opening greeting, Paul launches into his epistle by praising God (“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ”) because He “has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing” (3). He then enumerates a number of these blessings which makes Him worthy of praise, namely: Election 4Love 4Adoption 5Grace 6,

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 9)

Christ and Worship, Glory of God, Revelation and Response

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 2  (February 2014) 8. YES AND AMEN: God’s Program in Two Words (2 Corinthians 1:20) The Gospel in Miniature Nestled in the opening strains of Paul’s second epistle to the Corinthians is a statement which plumbs the depths of God’s redemptive work through Christ and the relationship with Him which we enjoy because of it. The Context The context finds Paul addressing the charge of

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 8)

Church, Edification, Glory of God, Grace, Lifestyle Worship, New Testament, Revelation and Response

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 9, No. 1  (January 2014) 7. PRINCIPLES OF WORSHIP IN 1 CORINTHIANS a. The Principle of Grace For consider your calling, brethren, that there were not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble; but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 7)

Christmas, Church, Fall, Glory of God, Heaven, New Testament, Romans

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 12  (December 2013) 6. FROM GLORY TO GLORY: God’s Glory in Romans (and in Christmas)  The Fall For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 6)

Creation, Glory of God, Gospel, New Testament, Revelation and Response, Romans

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 10  (October 2013) 5. PAUL AS THEOLOGIAN AND WORSHIPER (Romans 11:33-36) Paul’s explanation of the ramifications of the fall (1:18-32; see last month’s Worship Notes) and the ensuing blackness of sin that has engulfed the human race (3:9-18,23) makes the gospel shine all the more brightly as he expounds on it in the ensuing chapters. He shows how the gospel is indeed “the power of

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 5)

Fall, False Worship/Idolatry, Genesis, Glory of God, Gospel, New Testament, Romans

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 9  (September 2013) 5. WORSHIP AND THE FALL IN ROMANS (Romans 1:18-25) Sometimes, when students at the schools I visit overseas learn that I have come to teach a course on worship, they ask (or at least think) questions like: “A whole course on worship?? What’s he going to talk about for one or two weeks?” But they soon see, as we delve deeply into

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Important New Testament Worship Passages (Part 4)

Biblical vs. Cultural, Communion, Global Worship, Praise, Prayer, Transcultural Aspects of Worship, Word and Worship

WORSHIP NOTES Volume 8, No. 8 (August 2013) NOTE: For the crucial passage on worship in John 4, please see Worship Notes 3.9. 4. BIBLICAL CONSTANTS OF WORSHIP (Acts 2:42,47) a. Normative Elements Luke has just recounted the events of the day of Pentecost: the coming of the Holy Spirit upon Jesus’ followers, Peter’s sermon, and the conversion and baptism of “three thousand souls” (2:41). And in the very next

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