focusPoints: Love the Lord (the first and greatest commandment)
Matthew 22:37-38 (NIV).
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment."
"Expressing my love to God" is called WORSHIP.
I worship God:
1- By SINGING to Him.
Scriptures: Psalm 147:7 (LB); Psalm 66:8, 95:1 (NLT)
2-By TALKING to Him.
Scripture: Psalm 116:1-2 (NLT)
3-By LISTENING to Him.
Scriptures: Leviticus 23:3 (NIV); John 10:14, 16 (NIV)
4- By IDENTIFYING with Him.
Scriptures: Matthew 5:14-15 (NLT); Mark 8:38 (NIV)
5- By being COMMITTED to Him.
Scriptures: Romans 12:1 (Message)
6- By GIVING to Him.
Scriptures: Acts 4:32-35 (NLT); II Corinthians 8:7-8
(Fookes: Stockwell UMC Worship Message, 28 October 2007)
forwardPoints:
“Starbucks is full of thingys—mugs, water bottles, plates—that are already becoming as collectible as Coca-Cola artifacts. While we must not worship any thing, the life of faith needs thingys to help it flex its muscles. The virtual nature of so much of our culture is making us even more hungry for tactile, iconic, multisensory experiences and thingys to hang on our walls and bodies. Faith is itself a brand, an identifier that sets us apart, singling us out as a peculiar people.
(Sweet: Gospel According to Starbucks, 116)
fellowshipPoints:
Most faith communities come together to experience, as Sweet would say, a “thingy” called worship.
Those of us who engage in this experience regularly, often do so without thinking about what it means … why it’s important … how we benefit from it .. how it equips us to benefit others.
Those of us who don’t engage in this experience regularly, often find it unapproachable … clique-like … full of unusual customs … unsure of what it means … unable to find its relevance.
As Sweet says, a faith-life needs worship to help it “flex its muscles.” For those of us who have been flexing for awhile, are we getting a full workout or just going through the motions? For those of us who haven’t, is it time to go to the gym?
findingPoints:
Sweet identifies some “bad connections” (146-154) as being only connecting with God, only connecting with self, only connecting with others, only connecting, and only connecting with nature.
Looking at your own spiritual life, what was a peak, positive experience for you spiritually? Who was involved? What happened? How did you feel? What made it special for you?
What role did worship play in your peak experience? Before it? As a part of it? After it?
What gifts and graces that you possess were enhanced by your peak experience?
faithPoints:
Meditate in prayer on discovering through worship how you can “flex your spiritual muscles” to enhance your spiritual fitness and experience more peaks in your spiritual life.
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