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I have often said to the people I pastor, \u201cWe do not come together to worship; we are worshipers who come together.\u201d\u00a0 Though we use the vernacular \u201ccoming to worship\u201d to mean \u201ccoming to church,\u201d we must have a better understanding of where and how the real worship is taking place.\u00a0 We know these things, but by losing the battle of definitions we may be losing the important thing: the ability to worship biblically.<\/span><\/p>\n

A.W. Tozer wrote, \u201cIf you cannot worship the Lord in the midst of your responsibilities on Monday, it is not very likely that you were worshiping on Sunday.\u201d1 <\/sup> The German hymn goes, \u201cAlike at work and prayer, to Jesus I repair, May Jesus Christ be praised!\u201d\u00a0 The familiar point being that we cannot say and perform one thing on Sunday in church, while living another thing throughout the week, and call our Sunday attitude \u201cworship.\u201d\u00a0 It was at best performance and yet, ironically, performance is what is being advocated today with the attitude of \u201ccoming together to worship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Our general lack of perspective in worship is our deficiency in understanding the function of our High Priest in Hebrews 8-10 and the heavenly worship service in which He is officiating every minute of every day!\u00a0 Sunday-only performances\u00a0 (perhaps \u201cSunday Matinee\u201d would be a good description) in contemporary worship services are not helping us regain reality in worship, they are, rather, taking us further into formalism and sacramentalism than ever thought possible.<\/p>\n

I believe that in a subtle and alarming way, contemporary worship is taking us further back to Old Testament Judaism and even Romanism than it is bringing us to New Testament worship!\u00a0 By thinking that we are the active ones in worship, that we must become priests or \u201cfacilitators\u201d of worship, we are rushing into the presence of God without the real High Priest, the Daysman, the Mediator, who is over the House of God, and who only can lead us in worship, interceding for us by His own blood before a holy God.<\/p>\n

William Newell is right when he reminds his readers that the \u201cnew and living way\u201d is more of a contrast to the old,\u00a0 than a fulfillment of it.<\/p>\n

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If you do not go to the Cross and get deliverance from all \u2018religion,\u2019 and find yourself in the presence of God, with all claims met, these Levitical things will have a subtle hold upon you, like the Cross on top of a Romish cathedral\u2014while the \u2018Word of the Cross\u2019 (1 Cor. 1.18), the \u2018power of God\u2019 which sets people free, is wholly unknown to the monstrous pagan system.\u00a0 In the Levitical things, you are to see the contrast to what you now enjoy, not the very example of it.2<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Where the old formalism became itself the priesthood and performed the worship for the people by sacrament, liturgy and icons, the new formalism (i.e. contemporary worship) is performing the same function with its worship leaders, crafted service structure, and technological shows that require nothing of the attendees in knowledge, belief or practice.<\/p>\n

This criticism of contemporary worship should not seem extreme or unfair.\u00a0 It will be admitted that there is every degree of participation in this new formalism, but the gurus of the movement are making no excuses for what they are trying to accomplish.\u00a0 Barry Liesch3<\/sup> argues that \u201cOur entire worship culture is in transition.\u00a0 We are becoming, in some respects, more Hebraic\u201d (p. 150).\u00a0 Also, \u201cWhen leitourgia involves a large group, more vision, more planning, more drama, more mystery, more symbolism are required\u201d (p. 173).\u00a0 Liesch argues for giving \u201cworship\u201d more priority over preaching, \u201cAn increasing number of writers, theologians, and researchers of worship are taking the view that worship should receive priority over teaching, evangelism and fellowship\u201d (p. 157).\u00a0 He even uses Kierkegaard (the father of Neo-Orthodoxy) as an example to promote worship as performance with God as the audience and \u201cprompters\u201d (read: \u201cworship leaders\u201d) as coaches, rather than God as the coach (p. 123).<\/p>\n

Robert Webber4<\/sup> criticizes the break from Catholicism as a step backward in worship, transubstantiation and the Eucharist being far better symbols than what traditional churches have used (p. 136).\u00a0 He advocates using the Book of Common Prayer (p. 138) and describes a service at Tyndale Theological Seminary in which the students celebrated the Eucharist by carrying the bread and wine down the isle above their heads to singing which may \u201cexplode in praise and thanksgiving and may experience the healing touch of the Holy Spirit\u201d (p. 134-5).<\/p>\n

In an online article about the Catholic Lenten season titled, \u201cGet Lent: Protestants do the Sober Season,\u201d Andrew Santella writes, \u201cSo, maybe it\u2019s not that surprising that more Protestants are now dipping into the well of Catholic ritual and devotions.\u00a0 In that sense, Lent may be part of a trend:\u00a0 Check out [another site] which recasts Catholic devotional beads for Protestant use by eliminating those troublesome Hail Marys. . . .\u00a0 But our shared affection of late for some of the old ways of worship represents a small victory for mystery, ritual, and awe.\u201d<\/span>5<\/sup> More sobering is to see our Fundamental churches doing the same things.<\/span><\/div>\n

My point in this is that rather than being worshipers all the time, the emphasis now is that we can come together and be led by worship leaders into God\u2019s presence with all the emotion and symbolism that the liturgical churches ever had!\u00a0 Having accomplished this in an hour or two, the attendee is now sufficiently spiritual to make it through the week until the next worship experience.\u00a0 The contemporary approach to \u201cworship\u201d is facilitating this error, not combating it.\u00a0 Rather than our worship being based on the church\u2019s understanding and doctrine it is based on the unbeliever\u2019s idea of what he wants church to be.\u00a0 This could never coincide with Hebrews 8-10.<\/p>\n

We have a High Priest over the House of God!\u00a0 This is what Hebrews 10:21 says.\u00a0 We only can participate in what the New Testament calls \u201cworship\u201d if we have come unto God by Him (7:25); if our evil conscience has been purged by His own blood (9:14); and we have been perfected forever through His once-for-all offering for sin (10:10).\u00a0 It is He who has done and is doing any action that propitiates God (9:24-28), none of our actions nor the sacrifices of animals being acceptable in His sight (10:2-4).<\/p>\n

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Christian worship is, therefore, our participation through the Spirit in the Son’s communion with the Father, in his vicarious life of worship and intercession.\u00a0 It is our response to our Father for all that he has done for us in Christ.\u00a0 It is our self-offering in body, mind and spirit, in response to the one true offering made for us in Christ, our response of gratitude to God’s grace, our sharing by grace in the heavenly intercession of Christ.6<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Newell wrote it this way,<\/p>\n

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Yes, we need a Priest, and we have a Priest, thank God, a Great Priest over the house of God (vs. 21).\u00a0 Let us mark, however, that we do not serve Him as Priest: He serves us.\u00a0 We are not directed to come to Him as Priest, but to God\u2019s throne of grace, relying on Christ\u2019s shed blood, and having Him as Great Priest over the house of God.7<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Hebrews 10:21, where the presence of our High Priest is declared, is followed by the \u201cLet us\u201d patch.\u00a0 Seeing that this arrangement is true for us, we are invited to do three things.\u00a0 I submit that these are samples8<\/sup> of the believer\u2019s true \u201cworship,\u201d that worship not being a \u201cperformance\u201d whereby we \u201ccome into the presence of God,\u201d but a cognitive recognition that we are always in the presence of God!\u00a0 Even when we were dead in sins, [He] hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus (Eph. 2:5-6).<\/p>\n

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We are worshipers who are sprinkled and washed.<\/h3>\n

Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water (22).\u00a0 Homer Kent describes this twofold process which makes us continual worshipers before His presence,<\/p>\n

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Just as the Old Testament priest entered the divine presence by the sprinkling of blood and by virtue of bathing his flesh with water, so the Christian believer may confidently exercise his approach to God on the basis of a heart purified judicially by the blood of Christ and with a life that is cleansed from defilement by the Word of God (Eph. 5:25, 26).9<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

We are worshipers who are waiting and confident.<\/h3>\n

And let us hold fast the profession of our [hope] without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised) (23).\u00a0 Our continual worship should always be in light of His soon return.\u00a0 Paul commended the patience of hope of the Thessalonians and that they were ready to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come (1 Thes. 1:3, 10).\u00a0 F. F. Bruce wrote, \u201cEach successive Christian generation is called upon to live as the generation of the end-time, if it is to live as a Christian generation.\u201d10<\/sup> Our worship is also involved in Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and Savior Jesus Christ (Tit. 2:13).<\/p>\n

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We are worshipers who are considering and assembling.<\/h3>\n

And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much more, as ye see the day approaching (24-25).\u00a0 A vital part of our continual worship is to think about how we can stimulate our fellow believers to love and good works.\u00a0 We cannot do this by forsaking them but by assembling with them as often as the church meets.\u00a0 In this way we are truly worshipers who come together and the activity we do there is merely a continuation of our worship!<\/p>\n

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And so . . .<\/h3>\n

Let us do one more thing.\u00a0 Should we not put aside the \u201cobvious lie\u201d that is such a part of the superficial world around us?\u2014the gestures, the mechanical voices, the artificial scenery, the rolling of the eyes and the hypocritical motions.\u00a0 Why should we be any different singing, praying, reading and listening than we are at any other time?\u00a0 Let\u2019s be real!\u00a0 And let\u2019s not fall back into the ritualism that has stolen our faith.<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
1.A.W. Tozer, Whatever Happened To Worship (Camp Hill: Christian Publication, 1985) 122.<\/address>\n
2. William Newell, Hebrews (Chicago:\u00a0 Moody Press, 1947) 280.<\/address>\n
3.Barry Liesch, The New Worship (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2001).<\/address>\n
4 Robert Webber, Planning Blended Worship (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998).<\/address>\n
5. Slate Magazine (www.slate.com, 2\/28\/06).<\/address>\n
6. James B. Torrance, Worship, Community and the Triune God of Grace (Downer\u2019s Grove: IVP, 1996) 15.<\/address>\n
7. Newell, 348.<\/address>\n
8. All of Christian activity on earth is worship before God.\u00a0 Christ and the Holy Spirit are representing it before God for us.\u00a0 Hebrews 13:13-16 shows that with such sacrifices God is well pleased.<\/address>\n
9. Honer Kent, The Epistle to the Hebrews (Grand Rapids: Baker Book, 1979) 200.<\/address>\n
10. F.F. Bruce, The Epistle to the Hebrews (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1964) 256.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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