This document discusses the topic of worship. It provides definitions of worship from various sources that describe worship as connecting with God through one's conscience, mind, imagination, heart, and will. It also discusses the role of the worship leader in focusing worship on God rather than oneself. Principles of corporate worship are outlined, including it being God-centered, understandable, seeker-sensitive, unselfish, orderly, and missional. The document encourages worship leaders to audit their worship practices and songs to evaluate how well they reflect these principles.

1. Worship…
Discovering The Missing Jewel
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2. Worship
Discovering The Missing Jewel
Rev. Teddy A. Jones www.TeddyAJones.com

3. What is Worship?
• Discuss in groups of 3’s
• Share your responses

4. • ―To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness
of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge
the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to
the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God.
All this is gathered up in that emotion which most
cleanses us from selfishness because it is the most selfless
of all emotions – adoration.‖ - William Temple

5. What Is Worship?
• ―To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness
of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to
purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open
the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the
purpose of God. All this is gathered up in that emotion
which most cleanses us from selfishness because it is the
most selfless of all emotions – adoration.‖ - William
Temple

6. Who Is The Worship Leader?
• Let’s hear your answers….
• Worship should be unto God
• Understand who God is
• Jesus is the leader of our worship
• The Holy Spirit is the link between us and God in
Worship
• Worship is all of us connecting with all of God

7. HowdoestheWorshipLeaderView
Worship?
• 21 Jesus said to her, Woman, take my word for
this; the time is coming when you will not give
worship to the Father on this mountain or in
Jerusalem.
• 22 You give worship, but without knowledge of
what you are worshipping: we give worship to
what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes
from the Jews.
• 23 But the time is coming, and is even now
here, when the true worshippers will give worship
to the Father in the true way of the spirit, for
these are the worshippers desired by the Father.
• 24 God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him
worship in the true way of the spirit.

8. • Spirit is the highest, deepest, noblest part of our
humanity, the point of contact between God and man
• The phrase in spirit and in truth describes the two
essential characteristics of true worship
• in spirit, as distinguished from place or form or other
sensual limitations (ver. 21)
• in truth, as distinguished from the false conceptions
resulting from imperfect knowledge (ver. 22)

9. HowdoestheWorshipLeaderView
Worship?
• True worship includes a spiritual sense of the object
worshipped, and a spiritual communion with it; the
manifestation of the moral consciousness in
feelings, motions of the will, "moods of
elevation, excitements," etc.
• It includes also a truthful conception of the object. In
Jesus the Father is seen(14.9) and known (Lk.10:22)
• Likewise through Him we come to the Father, and
spiritually commune with Him. No man can come in
any other way (14. 6).
• To worship in truth is not merely to worship in
sincerity, but with a worship corresponding to the
nature of its object.
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10. We should live from the inside out!!
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11. What is Worship?
• Watch this video clip from Worship Leader Darlene
Zschech. Click Here
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12. WORSHIPISTHECOREOFWHOWEARE
• Indeed, worship is not merely an aspect of our
being, but the essence of our being as God’s
image-bearers. As a result, all of life is ceaseless
worship.
• Rather, we are continually giving ourselves
away or pouring ourselves out for a person,
cause, experience, achievement, or status.
• Do not say ―Let us come into the presence of the
Lord‖
• Do not say ―Let us invite the Holy Spirit into
our midst‖
• DO NOT SAY PRAISE AND WORSHIP!!!

13. Lift The Leads
• Watch the following video and meditate on it deeply.
Click Here
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14. It’s Not about You!
• Hebrews 13:15-17 - Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
• 15 Through him, therefore, let us offer God a sacrifice of
praise continually.[a] For this is the natural product of lips
that acknowledge his name.
• 16 But don’t forget doing good and sharing with others,
for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

15. It’s Not About You
• 16Make sure you don't take things for granted and go
slack in working for the common good; share what you
have with others. God takes particular pleasure in acts of
worship—a different kind of "sacrifice"—that take place
in kitchen and workplace and on the streets.
• 17Be responsive to your pastoral leaders. Listen to their
counsel. They are alert to the condition of your lives and
work under the strict supervision of God. Contribute to
the joy of their leadership, not its drudgery. Why would
you want to make things harder for them?
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16. It’s Not About You
Hebrews 13:15-17
• Praise
• Proclamation (lips that confess his name)
• Service (do good as a demonstration of the gospel to the
world)
• Participation (share with others as a demonstration of
grace to the world)
• Sacrifice (giving of time talent and treasure)
• Submission (respecting godly authority placed over you
so as to grow in wisdom and holiness)
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17. Principles for Corporate Worship
• It’s not about you! - The meeting is for corporate
response to God, not just individual response.
• CORPORATE WORSHIP IS TO BE GOD-
CENTERED
• Worship is not an occasion for us to hear sermons about
us, sing songs about us, or focus on how to make
ourselves feel happily inspired. Since we are prone to
worship ourselves as idols, corporate worship is an
important occasion to redirect our worship back to God.

18. Principles for Corporate Worship
• CORPORATE WORSHIP SHOULD BE
UNDERSTANDABLE
• Worship should be intelligible. This means that not only
is the service conducted in the known language of the
hearers, but also that technical doctrinal terms are
explained so everyone understands what is being said and
sung. We are to lead people to be impressed by Jesus
not us!

19. Principles for Corporate Worship
• CORPORATE WORSHIP IS TO BE SEEKER-
SENSIBLE
• Because there are non-Christians present in corporate
worship meetings, people leading those meetings need to
be hospitable to non-Christians.

20. Principles for Corporate Worship
• CORPORATE WORSHIP IS TO BE UNSELFISH
• If someone wants to express their personal response to
God in a way that draws undue attention to them and
distracts from others responding to God, they should do
that kind of thing at home in private.

21. Principles for Corporate Worship
• CORPORATE WORSHIP IS TO BE ORDERLY
• While no church is perfect, and corporate worship
meetings not intended to be an impressive performance:
• musicians who cannot keep time, singers who cannot
sing, audio speakers with continual feedback, long
awkward pauses because no one knows what is
happening next, and people speaking in tongues or
prophesying out of turn in a way the Bible forbids are all
things that distract people from being able to focus on
God and falsely portray God as chaotic.

22. Principles for Corporate Worship
• CORPORATE WORSHIP IS TO BE MISSIONAL
• Human beings are, as God’s image-bearers, culture
makers, receivers, and interpreters. Subsequently, it is
nonsensical for Christians to ignore culture or assume
Christianity, is in itself, a culture that exists completely
separated from the cultures in which the church exists.

23. Principles for Corporate Worship
• To be missional, a church meeting has to fit the culture it
is in rather than being a subculture imported from another
time or place. This does not mean that older traditions
(e.g., hymns, creeds) are not used, but they are used
because they contribute to informing faithful worship of
God rather than perpetuating a dated form that is no
longer best for ministry.
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25. Do an Audit
• Write down the 5 most popular songs for your praise
team.
• How many of them are locally written/use local
language?
• How theologically/Biblically sound are they?
• How feminine/masculine are they?

26. Values
Humility… that leads to service
Diversity… that leads to understanding
Interdependence… that leads to
partnerships
Empowerment… that
leads to multiplication
Creativity… that leads to new
inventions
Integrity… that leads to trust
Passion…that leads to action

27. Rev. Teddy A. Jones
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