“The vitality and genuineness of corporate worship is to a large degree dependent upon the vitality of our individual private worship. If we aren’t spending time daily worshiping God, we’re not apt to contribute to the corporate experience of worship. If we aren’t worshiping God during the week, how can we expect to genuinely participate in it on Sunday morning?” Richard Sibbes
Richard Sibbes
“The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, to whims, or to marketing strategies. It is the pleasing of God that is at the heart of worship. Therefore, our worship must be informed at every point by the Word of God as we seek God’s own instructions for worship that is pleasing to Him.”
R.C. Sproul
“Many evangelicals today believe that the church exists either to meet the spiritual needs of Christians or to reach out to the world. Both of these are by-products of true worship: biblical worship does bless believers and evangelize the lost. But the true and primary reason to come to church is to fulfill our priestly role of offering worship to the true and living God, who is worthy of all our praise.”
Richard D. PHillips
For great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods. Psalm 96:4 (ESV) Continue reading
“When God has a rod in his hand, a godly man will have a psalm in his mouth. The devil’s smiting of Job was like striking a musical instrument; he sounded forth praise. . . . When God’s spiritual plants are cut and bleed, they drop thankfulness; the saints’ tears cannot drown their praises.”
Thomas Watson
“To give God oral praise and dishonour him in our lives is to commit a barbarism in religion, and is to be like those . . . who bowed the knee to Christ and then spat on him.”
Thomas Watson
“What the mind cannot understand of the things of God, the heart worships and adores, delighting in God’s infinite wisdom and giving glory to him in every situation and circumstance, knowing that nothing ever happens except by the express will of God.”
John Owen
“Christ is magnified in my death, when in my death I am satisfied with him–when I experience death as gain because I gain him. Or . . . Christ will be praised in my death, if in my death he is prized above life.”
John Piper
