Worship and Glory

Bible Verse (2 Chronicles 7:14)

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

 

Thought for the day

A common question that gets asked regularly in church circles is what is worship? And to some extent it’s the driving force behind this podcast and if you’ve been listening for a while you’ll have heard me talk about a regular rhythm of worship.

 

When I was growing up worship was something you did. We were active participants in worship. We went to church to worship. When I came to the UK and got back into a more mainstream church I came up against worship as something was attended. Worship for many people was something they attend rather than something we were active participants in. And I’ll be honest I find that model of worship…problematic.

 

It may be that it’s cultural or regional thing and certainly in the past, people went to worship because they were expected to. I live in an area with amazing historical church buildings built for huge congregation by amazingly wealthy business owners, who expected their workers to go to church and felt it their Christian duty to provide places for people to worship. So they built these huge buildings to bring glory to God. The churches became their act of worship,

 

The thing is we don’t actually need to go to church to worship God. I’m a big believer in whole life worship. Worship is something we exude from our lives whether it’s standing up in a pulpit or changing a nappy because when we do things to the best of our ability it brings glory to God. And that is the very definition of worship: bringing glory to God. So today what ever you are doing remember that everything we do becomes the opportunity to worship and know that God enjoys every moment of it.