Rev Bill

I have posed my sermon for today on my sermon blog. It’s the second in my

The Purpose Driven Church

series — based on Matthew 22:34-40, Matthew 28:16-20, and Isaiah 6:1-8 — and entitled “A Great Commitment To Worship”.

Here’s a portion of it:

The purpose of worship is not so much to entertain you – or to even speak directly to you. There are times you may be entertained by great music or spoken to be a moving message – but that is not the real purpose of worship.
Several of us attended The Ephesians Event in Darlington yesterday and heard Doug Oldenburg – former President of Columbia Seminary and former moderator of the Presbyterian Church General Assembly speak on “Why Go To Church?”. His first reason was not so we will be entertained or so we will even be enriched – but because God calls us to worship Him. Worship is not about “what can I get out of it” – but “what can I put into it”.
A great commitment to worship makes for a great Church.
Worship, then, is not about us and what “speaks to” or “does not speak to” us – but it’s about focusing on God – what God would have be doing as a Church and as individual Christians – listening to God’s call – and responding.

You can read the sermon here.

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