Worship Times:
Freedom Life - Sunday's at 8:30 am - (beginning April 24th)
Traditional - Sunday's at 11:00 am
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Worship is a dynamic experience lived continuously before God.
How? Worship is the natural response to the activity of God in our lives. Many Christians today equate worship with an activity that happens only at a scheduled service, usually on Sunday mornings. That is not how worship is revealed in Scripture.
God commanded Abraham, "Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you." (Gen. 22:2)
Abraham obeyed, rising early, and took Isaac, telling him we will go there and worship. Isaac asked his father, "My father! Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
Abraham replied, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering."
When the time for the sacrifice came God stopped Abraham from offering his son saying, "Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me."
Abraham looked and caught in a thicket by the horns was a ram, so Abraham sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. Abraham named the place The -LORD-Will-Provide.
Do you think Abraham worshiped as he told Isaac he would?!
I think he worshiped like never before in response to the goodness of God. That is how we are to worship too.
Why? Because our heavenly Father did not spare His only begotten Son, Jesus, but offered Him up graciously for us all. He was the sacrificial Lamb through whom we approach and worship God.
Worship takes place any time we respond to God.
So should we worship corporately on Sunday mornings? Absolutely!
Perhaps you worship in a contemporary service early, or a traditional service at 11:00 am. Either way, when you respond to God and give Him praise, thanks, and blessing from a heart of love, then you worship in Spirit and truth.