Revelation contains several worship scenes which emphasize the importance of worship as a Christian practice!

   In my home congregation, Dr. Ben Witherington III states, there was a little old lady who was deaf as a post and blind as a bat, but she was there every Sunday worshiping God with these gigantic hearing aids and very thick glasses. On her same pew—because as you know, many are called and pews are chosen—every week on the same pew, there was a young lady who saw this little old lady and couldn’t understand why she was there because it didn’t seem like she was getting much out of what was happening.

   So, after one worship service, she asked the old lady, “Ma’am, if you don’t mind me asking, why are you here since you can get so little out of this?” The old lady stood up tall, all five-feet-two of her, and said, “Young lady, I am not here primarily for what I can get out of this, but for giving worship to God. I have the bulletin sent to me during the week. I get out my magnifying glass and my large print Bible. I read the Scriptures that will be used during the worship service and the hymns that will be sung. I think and meditate on these things, and though it’s true, now I get less out of the worship than I used to, that’s not the primary function of worship for me. I come to give honour and praise and glory to God. That’s what worship is about.”  

    The young lady was stunned.

The one element in the worship service that is not theocentrically directed is when God speaks to us, when we hear His word and then the word is proclaimed. That’s actually the one element that is anthropocentric—when God speaks to us and then we respond in whatever way that we do.

   But the basic function of worship is the exaltation of God and the being caught up in congregational worship . Our Sunday morning worship is a key function of us a congregation; how do we best communicate its importance to us, on for example, our Web Site? Suggestions more than welcome!