Restoring Our Lives Through Worship

Slide 1: Restoring Your Life Through Worship Isaiah 6:1-8

Slide 2: Remember What Worship Is? The main Hebrew word: • Shacah – to bow down in obedient reverence The main Greek Word: • Proskuneo – to bow down and kiss the hand of The Old English: • Derived from the word worth-ship. • Meaning to denote worthiness to the one receiving the honor or devotion.

Slide 3: Why Change Worship? Has worship become an amusement service or a service in reverence to God? Have you heard? • “Worship is boring.” • “We need to spice up our worship.” • “I never get anything out of worship.”

Slide 4: What about God’s Words for Worship? One God and one guide. (2 Timothy 3:16-17) Authority is vital: • “not beyond the things that are written.” (1 Corinthians 4:6) • Abide in the doctrine of Christ. (2 John 9) • Spirit and truth (John 4:24) • Do not transgress. (1 John 3:4)

Slide 5: Are We Ashamed of Our Worship? Do we make worship “us-centered” instead of God-centered? Who does God seel true worshippers to worship? • John 4:24 • Is worship a self-seeking act or a selflessness act?

Slide 6: Worshipping like Isaiah Isaiah’s closeness to the Father – Isaiah 6:1-8 Notice Isaiah’s encounter: • Isaiah encounters the presence of God. (Isaiah 6:1-4) • Isaiah looked inwardly. (Isaiah 6:5) • Isaiah was cleansed. (Isaiah 6:7-8) • Isaiah was recommitted because of his reverence to the Lord. (Isaiah 6:8)

Slide 7: Worshipping like Isaiah Isaiah’s closeness to the Father – Isaiah 6:1-8 Notice Isaiah’s encounter: • Isaiah encounters the presence of God. (Isaiah 6:1-4) • Isaiah looked inwardly. (Isaiah 6:5) • Isaiah was cleansed. (Isaiah 6:7-8) • Isaiah was recommitted because of his reverence to the Lord. (Isaiah 6:8)