The Worship Answer Book: More Than a Music Experience (Hardback)

Muchow, Rick (Author)
and Warren, Rick (Foreword by)

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We need to learn to worship God in every area of our lives: at home, at work, in our cars . . . everywhere. Worship doesn't happen automatically; we must make some choices that will bring a real difference to our focus on God during worship. Most of us spend more time training on how to work at our computer than how to worship our Creator! For worship to stay both restful and revitalizing we must:

Get the BIG picture right
Do the LITTLE things well

Let worship leader Rick Muchow guide you into a deeper worship experience with spiritual insight and practical advice, so you can share more fully in praise of the Father.

Excerpt

Number 10

“We love because God loved us first.”
1 John 4:19 CEV

It may sound simple, but we worship God because we love god, and we love God because God first loved us.

We were made in the image of the perfect love between God the Father, son and Spirit (Genesis 1:26), created to love and to be loved. God designed us to be at home in his perfect love, and it is God’s love in us that compels us to love him and to love others: “Since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another” (1 John 4:11).

Through Christ, God enters into a very personal union with each of us, not conceptually, not theoretically, not metaphorically, but ACTUALLY! He makes the first move to bridge the huge gap between the holy and the sinful, between his perfect love and our flawed love. Through Jesus, God established forever that genuine love is always personal—from a Person through a Person to a person.

Because the love of God is intimate and personal, the love flowing from you back to him—your worship of him—should be equally intimate and personal.

God’s love doesn’t stop at diagnosing tour problems or judging our faults (Psalms 103:10); rather he moves to address the needs of our broken lives. Through worship, God brings fullness where there once was emptiness (Colossians 2:9-10); he brings live where there once was death (Ephesians 2:1,5); he brings reconciliation where there once was separation (Romans 5:10-11).

To truly and deeply believe that God is perfectly loving us is the truth that sets us free from self-consciousness and self-absorption (Romans 12:2). As we embrace this love from God, we are drawn to worship him in a real and authentic way, the way we would be drawn to those we love the most.

The more we are conscious of God’s love for us, the less self-conscious we become. Love begins to set the course of our lives, and worship becomes a natural outpouring of our transformed hearts.