WORSHIP - 2011 Summer Sermon Series
- Dr. Tom Ricks
- May 27, 2011
If you asked someone the question, “what comes to mind when you think of worship?” you might hear, “Sunday mornings, church buildings and synagogues, prayers, singing,
offering plates, nature, private, personal experience, etc.” Humans are created to worship. We don’t have a choice to worship or not to worship - the choice is only what or who we worship. What captures our heart? Join us this summer as we explore what worship really is and what it can mean for our everyday lives.
The true worship, the really spiritual worship, is the offering of one’s body, and all that one does every day with it, to God. Real worship is not the offering of elaborate prayers to God; it is not the offering to God of a liturgy, however noble, and a ritual, however magnificent. Real worship is the offering of every day life to God. Real worship is not something transacted in a church; real worship is something which sees the whole world as the temple of the living God, and every common deed an act of worship.
William Barclay, The Letter to the Romans
The religious life is not a dull grim drive toward moral virtues, but a response to a vision of greatness. Forgetting our little selves, our petty ambitions, our puny triumphs, our foolish cares and fretful anxieties, we reach out to the beauty and majesty of God.
Thomas F. Green, Preparation for Worship
Worship: A GTCC Summer Sermon Series, June 19 - August 14
