Worship in Church

The next few posts will be about how we worship the Lord. We will be concentrating specifically on how we worship God in a Church setting, as a body of believers. True worship is based upon our attitude. We can do all the right acts and still God may be displeased with our worship.

Amos told the people of Israel that God said, "I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Though ye offer Me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.'' (Amos 5:21 23)

God was displeased with Israel not because the acts of worship they did were wrong. They were obeying the laws that God gave to Moses. The problem was that, in their day to day lives, they were dishonoring God. They were living immoral lives and yet they expected God to approve of their worship.

Amos told them to repent. God will not accept our worship if we are practicing an immoral lifestyle. Before we can worship God we must turn from sin and seek to obey Him from day to day. That is essential.

When we gather with other Christians in a worship service, everything we do should be directed towards praising God and bringing Him honor.