What Is Worship?

What is worship?

Depending on where you're from or what denomination you were brought up in, there are a myriad of responses to that question.

Ronald Allen and Gordon Borror define it as such, "Worship is an active response to God whereby we declare His worth."*  Given that definition, we can draw the following conclusions about what worship is and is not.

• Worship is not passive; worship is participative.
• Worship is not just a mood; worship is a response.
• Worship is not just a feeling; worship is a declaration.
• Worship is not about us; worship is about God.
• Worship is not me-centered; worship is Christ-centered.

Come, now is the time to worship!

*Ronald Allen & Gordon Borror, Worship: Rediscovering the Missing Jewel (Eugene, OR:  Wipf and Stock, 2000), p. 16.