 Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Author: John Piper |
| God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped. Author: John Piper |
| God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in acceptable worship. The worship of God is always a response to the Word of God. Scripture wonderfully directs and enriches our worship. Author: John Stott |
| The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music. Author: Jonathan Edwards |
| A true love of God must begin with a delight in his holiness. Author: Jonathan Edwards |
| To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. Author: Martin Luther |
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If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to friends, rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping and rejoicing with Him, then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence? You'd be bored to tears in heaven, if you're not ecstatic about God now!
- Keith Green Author: Assorted Authors |
| Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have. Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship. If you hoard a thing for yourself, it will turn into spiritual dry rot, as the manna did when it was hoarded. God will never let you hold a spiritual thing for yourself; it has to be given back to Him that He may make it a blessing to others. Author: Oswald Chambers |
| An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate. Author: Charles Stanley |
| Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important. Author: Charles Stanley |
| We may be truly said to worship God, though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity. Author: Stephen Charnock |
| All Christian power springs from communion with God and from the indwelling of divine grace. Author: James H. Aughey |
