"I Asked the Lord" by Indelible Grace
Worship 1-2-3
In a recent interview Mike Cosper, Worship Pastor at Sojourn Community Church in Louisville, KY, mentioned the following principles of congregational worship. Very clear and easy to remember.
Worship has ONE object—the triune God, revealed in the scripture as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Worship has TWO contexts—the broad context of all of life (unceasing, living-sacrifice worship) and the narrow context of the gathered church, who gathers to encourage and build one another up, offering a foretaste of what is to come when Christ returns an heaven and earth are joined together. (Jeremy Begbie calls this an “echo of the future,” which is one of the coolest phrases in all of Christendom.)
Worship has THREE audiences—Our Triune God is both the object of worship and one of its audiences, but the scriptures also tell us to pay attention to two other audiences—the Gathered Church (Colossians 3:16,Hebrews 10:23-24) and the watching world (1 Corinthians 14:22-40).
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