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Setting the stage for worship: Preparing our hearts!
(Slide 1 Title)
Intro:
That Jesus God’s son the one who is one with the creator of the universe came to earth knowing full well that he was going to die! And not just die, but that he was going to be mocked, and beaten, and made out to be a fake, and then he was going to die a slow painful agonizing death. And not just any death, but a death that was reserved for the cursed and the true scum of the earth.
Wow that is really an amazing thought if you stop to think about it isn’t it?
We are in our first week of our series Losing My Religion and the idea is that we are talking about worship and how worship takes us from the place of religion or the motions of church or what we do to the relationship of church, or the why we do it!
This is what is cool. As I was seeking God and asking what is worship - this is what I feel like God said;
We worship when we recognize the reality of who God is - not with our lips or in our minds, but when our hearts connect with our minds and meshed with our faith until it affects our response!
And if I were perfectly honest those are the best moments of my life, where for whatever reason I get it and Jesus just feels absolutely real! Where there is something on the inside of you that is just screaming - This is it!!!!! This is what it is all about, and nothing else matters!
That must have been what some of those were feeling in scripture when they did some things that some called crazy, but I would call worship
The woman with her hair!
Luke 7: 36-50 The woman who poured perfume over Jesus feet... “your faith has saved you, go in peace”
King David land and dancing naked
2 Samuel 24:23-25 23 O king, Araunah gives all this to the king." Araunah also said to him, "May the LORD your God accept you." 24 But the king replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing."
(Slide 1 Title)
Intro:
That Jesus God’s son the one who is one with the creator of the universe came to earth knowing full well that he was going to die! And not just die, but that he was going to be mocked, and beaten, and made out to be a fake, and then he was going to die a slow painful agonizing death. And not just any death, but a death that was reserved for the cursed and the true scum of the earth.
Wow that is really an amazing thought if you stop to think about it isn’t it?
We are in our first week of our series Losing My Religion and the idea is that we are talking about worship and how worship takes us from the place of religion or the motions of church or what we do to the relationship of church, or the why we do it!
This is what is cool. As I was seeking God and asking what is worship - this is what I feel like God said;
We worship when we recognize the reality of who God is - not with our lips or in our minds, but when our hearts connect with our minds and meshed with our faith until it affects our response!
And if I were perfectly honest those are the best moments of my life, where for whatever reason I get it and Jesus just feels absolutely real! Where there is something on the inside of you that is just screaming - This is it!!!!! This is what it is all about, and nothing else matters!
That must have been what some of those were feeling in scripture when they did some things that some called crazy, but I would call worship
The woman with her hair!
Luke 7: 36-50 The woman who poured perfume over Jesus feet... “your faith has saved you, go in peace”
King David land and dancing naked
2 Samuel 24:23-25 23 O king, Araunah gives all this to the king." Araunah also said to him, "May the LORD your God accept you." 24 But the king replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing."