The document discusses the concepts of worship, myth, community, and rituals from various biblical passages and authors. It examines how worship can be an outpouring of one's entire being, but also how humanity has replaced worship of God with worship of created things. It explores how religion can exist without God by having a defining myth, community to share the story, and collective rituals. The concept of worship is also discussed in relation to serving only God and focusing on Jesus.

1. When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree
was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and
also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took
some and ate it.
Genesis 2:6

2. “Worship is the continuous outpouring of all
that I am, all that I do and all that I can ever
become…
Harold Best, Unceasing Worship

3. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,
and worshiped and served created things rather
than the Creator—who is forever praised.
Romans 1:25

4. “Worship is the continuous outpouring of all
that I am, all that I do and all that I can ever
become…
… in light of a chosen or choosing god”
Harold Best, Unceasing Worship

5. Religion without God
1. Myth (story that defines life)
2. Community (that shares the story)
3. Collective rituals (worship acts)
Gary Laderman, Sacred Matters

6. 1. Myth (story that defines life)
2. Community (that shares the story)
3. Collective rituals (worship acts)
Gary Laderman, Sacred Matters

7. 1. Myth (story that defines life)
2. Community (that shares the story)
3. Collective rituals (worship acts)
Gary Laderman, Sacred Matters

8. 1. Myth (story that defines life)
2. Community (that shares the story)
3. Collective rituals (worship acts)
Gary Laderman, Sacred Matters

9. 1. Myth (story that defines life)
2. Community (that shares the story)
3. Collective rituals (worship acts)
Gary Laderman, Sacred Matters

10. 1. Myth (story that defines life)
2. Community (that shares the story)
3. Collective rituals (worship acts)
Gary Laderman, Sacred Matters

11. “The key to understanding the Narcissus myth is
not that he fell in love with himself, but that he
failed to recognize himself in his own reflection.”
Dr. Drew Pinksy, The Mirror Effect

12. The Mirror Effect
Like an infectious agent, The
Mirror Effect threatens to
transmit the psychologically
damaging traits of narcissism
from the celebrities who
model them to a generation
of viewers who follow their
every move, and mirror it
back in their own behavior
Dr. Drew Pinksy, The Mirror Effect

15. “You shall have no other gods before me.
“You shall not make for yourself an image in the
form of anything in heaven above or on the
earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall
not bow down to them or worship them; for I,
the LORD your God, am a jealous God…”
Exodus 20:3-5

16. ‫`(עָ שָ ה‬asah) Hebrew
observe, appoint, ordain, institute, bring
about, celebrate
make

17. Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it
is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and
serve him only.’
Matthew 4:10

18. …And let us run with perseverance the race
marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the
pioneer and perfecter of faith.
Hebrews 12:1-2