THE WORSHIP OF OUR WHOLE...

THE WORSHIP OF OUR WHOLE LIVES

God Pleasing Worshipe great sin of the American church is that we have made worship all about what we want rather than what God wants.

“What pleases God?” is the real question we ought to be asking!

“And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has

done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable.

is is truly the way to worship him.”

Romans 12:1

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1. True worship is about giving, not getting.

“I plead with you to give...” ~Verse 1

e reason so many Christians are unhappy with their worship on Sunday and their walk with God Monday through Saturday is that they are trying to get from God rather than give to God.

e key to the whole life worship the Father desires is giving all that we are and all that we have to him.

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Whole Life Worship2. True worship is about offering our lives,

not just our lips.

“I plead with you to give your bodies to God.” ~Verse 1

Worship is not just offering the fruit of our lips on Sunday—our praise and music—it is also offering the fruit of our lives throughout the week.

• Worship is the offering of everyday life to God!

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• Worship is about giving all of me all the time all for God!

• Body—true worship requires physical engagement through our passionate praise in the worship moment and physical engagement through our spiritual pathway in the worship week.

• Spirit—true worship requires spirit and truth.

True Worship:

• Mind—true worship requires what is, arguably, the most important worship instrument of all: the brain.

Whole Life Worship3. True worship is about making the mind of

the Master the master of our mind.

“Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new

person by changing the way you think.”~Verse 2

• “Conform”—an outward expression that does not reflect what is within; putting on an act.

Do Not Conform

• “Pattern”— scheme; something that is unstable and unsustainable.

“Actively resist lazily drifting in the current as this unstable and dying culture pulls you into its way of thinking.”

~Romans 12:2 (Paraphrase)

Do Not Conform

“Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.”

~e Message

“Don’t let the world around you squeeze you into its mold.” ~J.B. Phillips Translation

• “Transform”—metamorphoo: a change in the outward appearance that matches the inner DNA of our redeemed lives.

But Be Transformed

• The transformed and renewed mind is both the work of the Holy Spirit as well as the work of the believer who must allow his or her mind to be saturated with and controlled by the Word of God.

“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,

whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.

~Philippians 4:8

Change The Way You Think

• Logizomai: to compute, to calculate—to think deliberately, proactively and strategically; logic.

Think About Such Things

• ere is a logical and intentional way the believer is to think, i.e., thinking Christianly.

• What we do—our behavior—and what’s done to us—our circumstances—do not produce what we think.

Thinking Christianly

• It is what we think that produces our response in any given set of circumstances.

• inking Christianly enables and encourages right living—the offering of our bodies as a living and holy sacrifice that God finds pleasing and acceptable.

To think Christianly is the practice of setting godly virtues and Biblical values as the gatekeeper of your mind.

“As a man thinks within himself, so he is.” ~Proverbs 23:7

“Guard your heart above all else,      for it determines the course of your life.”

~Proverbs 4:23 (NLT)

Thinking Christianly

Thinking Christianly1) Truthful things—God’s immutable Word 2) Noble things—worthy of respect 3) Righteous things—Scripturally congruent 4) Pure things—morally clean and undefiled5) Lovely things—uplifting and ennobling 6) Admirable things—venerable and reputable

“Thinking Christianly is when Christian minds are so informed and influenced by the truth of

God’s Word in terms of their principles, perspectives, and presupposition that they begin to

see as God sees, though imperfectly.” ~Os Guinness

Thinking Christianly

“As we take in God’s Word, our minds become “steeped in the Scriptures, like tea is steeped in hot

water, until the Word of God permeates our minds, our hearts, our imaginations, our very consciousness.”

~Steven Garber

Thinking Christianly

“A living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.”

~Romans 12:1 (NLT)

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