ReThink-Worship

So I promised another post today, and now I am making good on my promise. I know I talked about our prayer series, and while I really want to write about that, I am going to write about our series we started today. Then post on the prayer series this week.

Today we started ReThink Christmas. Mark said each week we are going to take one word from the "Christmas" narrative and focus in on it. Today we talked about worship.

The idea for ReThinking worship came from Luke 2:28 "Simeon took him in his arms and praised God..." Praise defined means-bless, celebrate, worship

This old man, Simeon was promised by God that before he died he would meet the Saviour, the Messiah, the living God. When Mary and Joseph travelled to Jerusalem for the census, Simeon was there, and was able to meet Jesus.

*Worship is anything that we do, that pleases God*

3 Ways we can Worship this Christmas...
1. We worship because we feel like it-hit the pause button, look around, and give thanks, worship/thank God for your spouse, kids, friends, all of the blessings you normally take for granted.

2. We worship when we don't feel like it-We don't feel like worshiping when we just lost our job, a loved one, when we are going through a divorce, but worship is a choice, say it again...Worship is a choice, Psalm 71:23-we are told to choose worship. When you choose to worship God, even in all of the bad times, He will show up in ways you least expected.

3. We see that worship is a lifestyle- Isaiah 29:13, Mark talked about not separating your Sunday life from the rest of your life. Make sure what you do on Sunday carries over to Monday thru Saturday, too.

Everything we do, we need to be worshipful

"So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you." Romans 12:1,2