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THE PHBF STORY: W h o W e A r e &

W h a t W e ’ r e A b o u t

Who We Are & What We’re About WORSHIP

Worship is terminal.

• What worship is: a felt response to the worth of God

• What worship does: brings every other Christian activity to its proper end


Worship is communal.

In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets. Now that Charles is dead, I shall never again see Ron-ald’s reaction to a specifically Caroline joke. Far from having more of Ronald, having him ‘to myself’ now that Charles is away, I have less of Ronald.

~ C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves, p 61

Worship is God-centered.


I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

Isaiah 43:25

For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great. Ps 25:11

For my name's sake I defer my anger, for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off. 10 Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tried you in the furnace of affliction. 11 For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it, for how should my name be profaned? My glory I will not give to another.

Is 48:9-11

Worship is God-centered.


But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ- by grace you have been saved- 6 and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, 7 so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. Eph 2:4-7

What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruc-tion, 23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory…

Rom 9:22-23

Worship is cross-centered.

1. The cross is the motive for our adoration.

2. The cross is the means of our access.

3. The cross is the ground for our acceptance.
