Cornerstone Curriculum, Official Certification Edition - Mentor's Guide

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Worship Defined The principal biblical terms, the Hebrew saha and the Greek proskyneo , emphasize the act of prostration.

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~ E. F. Harrison, “Worship.” Evangelical Dictionary of Theology . p. 1192.

Worship is responding to God with full recognition of his rightful position as the One who is worthy of absolute adoration, obedience, service, gratitude, and praise. Ps. 95.6 – Come let us bow down in worship, let us kneel before the Lord our Maker (cf., Lev. 26.1; Deut. 26.10; Ps. 138.2; Matt. 4.9-10). Some Key Assumptions The Word basis of worship: we worship the One who is revealed to us. Apart from the hearing of God’s Word we could not worship because we would not know him. He dwells in unapproachable light. Only because he has revealed himself can we respond to him. John 1.18 – No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father’s side, has made him known. The covenant basis of worship: we worship by means of Christ Jesus (Hebrews). Christian worship is distinctive in that it is christocentric. The veil has been torn away. We have direct access to the Father through Christ Jesus. Giving glory to God the Father through him. (Heb. 10.20 – By a new and living way opened up for us through the curtain, that is, his body . . .) The communal basis of worship: the holy priesthood (worship is always corporate first, individual second). Heb. 10.25 – Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another – and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

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