W.W.W. ON REAL WORSHIP

Warren W. Wiersbe on Real Worship

“I have learned that preaching is an act of worship and that my message must be a sacrifice placed on the altar to the glory of God.”

Warren Wiersbe, Real Worship (Nashville: Oliver-Nelson, 1986),

p. 18

“When you consider all of the words used for worship in both the Old and New Testaments, and when you put the meanings together, you find that worship involves both attitudes (awe, reverence, respect) and actions (bowing, praising, serving). It is both a subjective experience and an objective activity. Worship is not an unexpressed feeling, nor is it an empty formality. True worship is balanced and involves the mind, the emotions, and the will. It must be intelligent; it must reach deep within and be motivated by love; and it must lead to obedient actions that glorify God.”

Ibid., p. 21

“We do not worship God for what we get out of it, but because He is worthy. ‘Whoever seeks God as a means toward desired ends will not find God,’ wrote A. W. Tozer. ‘God will not be used.’ If you worship because it pays, it won’t pay. Of course, this runs contrary to much of the popular preaching and teaching today that promises health, wealth, contentment, and a problem-free life to all who will ‘turn themselves over to God.’ Those who proclaim this pernicious doctrine would be brokenhearted if their own children loved them only for what they could get out of them.”

Ibid., p. 22.

“True worship is not cheap entertainment.”

Ibid., p. 23

“Worship is the believer’s response of all that he is--mind, emotions, will, and body--to all that God is and says and does. This response has its mystical side in subjective experience, and its practical side in objective obedience to God’s revealed truth. It is a loving response that is balanced by the fear of the Lord, and it is a deepening response as the believer comes to know God better.”

Ibid., p. 27


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