You Must Worship with a Daily Life of Godliness
Speaker: Adam Godshall
Series: Why We Worship The Way We Do
Text: Romans 12:1-2
Theme: You Must Worship with a Daily Life of Godliness.
One: You are not often amazed by God's mercy.
- ...as the strength of Paul's argument
- ...as the motivation for my worship
- ...as the example for our mercy
Two: You are not daily giving yourself to God's agenda.
- A paradox: a living sacrifice
- A call to holiness
- A reasonable expectation
Three: You are not actively resisting the world's influence.
- The great threat is worldliness
- The subtle strategy is confromity
Four: You are not continually transforming with God's truth.
- A process of metamorphosis
- In the battlefield of the mind
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What Qualifies for Church Music (Part 3)
Speaker: Adam Godshall
Series: Why We Worship the Way We Do
Text: Ephesians 5:19
Theme: What Qualifies for Church Music (Part 3)
Test One: Is it theological?
Test Two: Is it God-centered?
Test Three: Is it excellent?
Test Four: Is it congregational?
Test Five: Is it passionate?
Test Six: Is it understandable?
Test Seven: Is it reverent?
Test Eight: Is it singable?
- ...in its range
- ...in its rhythm
- ...in its musicality
Test Nine: Is it spiritual?
- By the Spirit
- From the heart
- As worship to God
Test Ten: Is it distinct?
- Seperate, not similar
- Sacred, not common
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What Qualifies for Church Music? (Part 2)
Speaker: Adam Godshall
Series: Why We Worship the Way We Do
Text: Ephesians 5:19
Theme: What Qualifies for Church Music? (Part 2)
Test One: Is it theological?
Test Two: Is it God-centered?
Test Three: Is it Excellent?
Test Four: Is it congregational?
Test Five: Is it passionate?
- as a result of truth
- including a broad range of emotions
- with an emphasis on joy
Test Six: Is it understandable?
- Church music is communication.
- Church music is literature.
Test Seven: Is it reverent?
- It should be respectful.
- It should be governed.
It is good to sing praises to our God ~ Psalm 147:1
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What Qualifies for Church Music? (Part 1)
Speaker: Adam Godshall
Series: Why We Worship the Way We Do
Text: Colossians 3:16
Theme: What Qualifies for Church Music? (Part 1)
Test One: Is it theological?
- It should be orthodox.
- It should be meaningful.
- It should be clear.
Test Two: Is it God-centered?
- God should be the subject and the object of our worship.
- Personal pronouns may be express our needs or response.
Test Three: Is it excellent?
- It should be non-distracting.
- It should be fitting.
- It should have musical quality.
Test Four: Is it congregational?
- It should celebrate the human voice.
- It should celebrate participation.
It is good to sing praises to our God ~ Psalm 147:1
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Our Liturgy: We Speak to God
Speaker: Adam Godshall
Series: Why We Worship the Way We Do
Text: Psalm 100
Theme: Our Liturgy: We Speak to God
Worship = my response to God's Worth.
Liturgy = the order of the service.
We speak to God through...
One: ...Prayer: whereby we (P)raise, (R)epent, (A)sk, and (Y)eild.
Two: ...Singing: as praise and as descipleship.
Three: ...Affirmations of our faith: from the Bible, and from church confessions.
Four: ...Giving: with thanksgiving and in faith.
Five: ...Congregational Responses: with "amen", through the ordinances, and by our resolve.
Present your bodies as a living sacrifice...which is your spiritual worship ~ Romans 12:1
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Our Liturgy: God Speaks to Us
Speaker: Adam Godshall
Series: Why We Worship the Way We Do
Text: Nehemiah 8:1-12
Theme: Our Liturgy: God Speaks to Us
Worship = my responds to God's worth.
Liturgy = the order of the service.
God speaks to us in...
One: ...the Call to Worship: a call for unity, focus, and praise.
Two: ...Scripture Reading: God has spoken with living words.
Three: ...Preaching: the explanation of, and exultation in, God and His work.
Four: ...Meditation: be still and know who God is.
Five: ...Benediction: a good word of sustaining truth.
Present your bodies a living sacrifice...which is your spiritual worship ~ Romans 12:1
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