Worship

The following are three quotes that describe worship. This one is from Israel’s worship.

"Come, let us bow down in worship,let us kneel before the LORD our Maker." Psalm 95:6

This one is out of the idea in Churches of Christ in the 1950s that there are five and only five acts of worship.

"To be scriptural our Lord’s day worship must contain all of these five required items...To have less than these required five is to render the worship vain! To have more than these, is to corrupt the worship!" John Banister (1951)

Finally, this one is from a contemporary writer who follows the “Edification Model” that sees no special presence of God in the assembly but views worship as a way of filling the tank of discipleship to go on living in “daily worship.”

"You won't find any place in the New Testament where these ideas of special presence or encounter with God are part of the Christian assembly...There is no more special presence of God on Sunday morning at the church building than there is in your car Monday morning ... The idea of limited or special presence of God comes from temple traditions and cathedral thinking ... What happens in the assembly of the saints is totally up to you!" Mike Root (2000)