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Worship Team Training Page WTT Facebook Page WTT On Twitter “The greatest motivation to share the gospel w/ someone today & everyday: Another voice around the throne. A louder song for Jesus.” - Matt Papa “Worship begins and ends with God.” - Branon Dempsey “Unified worship points us beyond the methodology to the true heart and goal of worship as God’s people humbly come together unified in the Spirit to worship Christ!” - Scott Wesley Brown “Worship has been misunderstood as something that arises from a feeling which "comes upon you," but it is vital that we understand that it is rooted in a conscious act of the will, to serve and obey the Lord Jesus Christ.” - Graham Kendrick "Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world." - Martin Luther "Church: if the world could see a snapshot of our worship today, would they perceive that we believe our God is worthy of praise?" - Matt Papa “Forms and rituals do not produce worship, nor does the disuse of forms and rituals. We can use all the right techniques and methods...but we have not worshipped the Lord until Spirit touches spirit.” - Richard J. Foster “Are we going to see our times of worship as the destination to arrive at, or the departure gate for the fullest life of all?” - Ben Cantelon “Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so God tailor-made our entire being, souls and spirits to work together in consonance to produce pleasing expressions of praise and worship.” - Don McMinn “Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.” - Richard J. Foster “Worship is an it-is-well-with-my-soul experience.” - Robert Webber “So many times we come to Jesus in worship and ask Him for things that He already IS and has already done… What a concept to come into worship knowing who we are approaching…the absolute fullness of God, pleased to dwell in this Jesus whom we worship.  He’s already broken the chains…already seated us with Him…already invited us ‘into the glorious’.” - Christy Nockels "The mark of the true church is an expanding witness to the presence of God." - Greg Beale "In the experience of offering praise to God, if our worship is genuine, it will also be reflective in the experience of our relationships through faith, speech and action." - Branon Dempsey “If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.” - Sam Storms “When you put biblical truth to the songs used in churches, you’ll have the congregation leave singing the sermon. You’ll have God’s thoughts, things that are God-breathed, stuck in their heads. It’s sad to think about a really catchy tune paired up with bad theology because that could, honestly, do a lot of damage in church.” - Laura Story "If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One who is the object of their worship." - Marva Dawn "True ministry isn't just 'cut and paste,' it has to be birthed from the inside out." - Steven Furtick "Not rituals or structures, not mountaintops or valley floors; God is the goal we must seek, and that’s what makes for true worship." - Case Crayenord "When you have a heart to serve and help others it unlocks something in you" - Reuben Morgan "Worship must be - Christ centered, Holy Spirit led, a Response to the Father, about Intimacy and Service and always lead to Transformation!" - Tim Hughes "It is the voice of the Church that is heard in singing together. It is not you that sings, it is the Church that is singing, and you, as a member of the Church, may share in its song." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer "We all approach the task of leading people in sung worship with different experiences, different baggage, different backgrounds. And that’s OK. It’s even a good thing as it allows us to connect with a different range of people (most often those with similar experiences, baggage and backgrounds)." - Ben Cantelon "Worship songs can't just be rooted in culture - they won't be deep enough. They have to be rooted in scripture." - Matt Redman "Expressing a worship that unlocks "spirit and truth" is ever more inwardly transparent resulting in ever more courageous expressions of love." - David Ruiz "Style of worship is not the issue as much as the substance. In other words, if the people are called to worship God with integrity and concentration on Him, the style is secondary...It is a wise church that brings both style and substance together in a manner that pleases God." - Jerry Solomon “We need to discover all over again that worship is natural to the Christian...and that the habit of celebrating the greatness and graciousness of God yields an endless flow of thankfulness, joy, and zeal.” - JI Packer “A true worshiper has no life of his own. He has been bought with a price. He has died to the right to have his needs met in order to meet the needs of his Creator.” - Steve Pruitt “Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father.” - Richard J. Foster “True worshipers put no confidence in what can be accomplished in the flesh, but only what can be accomplished by the Spirit of God and being obedient to his word.” - Steve Pruitt “The actual concept of invocation is to invoke the presence of God or the Holy Spirit. Knowing that God is with us we also say, “God, come be an active part of this service.” - Charlie Hall “Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.” - Paul David Tripp "In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart." – John Bunyan “If you are in Christ, you've been chosen to transcend the borders of your own glory, to reach out toward a greater glory, the glory of God.” - Paul David Tripp “The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.” - Dan Allender “Worship is about something we do. It involves sacrifice. But at the heart of the gospel is this truth, we are called and chosen by God to join in with the dance of the trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” - Tim Hughes “Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.” - Matt Pappa “We need to cultivate hearts that are ready to change, ready to be moulded and shaped by the loving hands of God as we offer ourselves wholeheartedly in worship.” - Stuart Townend “If you come to worship for any reason other that the joy and pleasure and satisfaction that are to be found in God, you dishonor Him...God's greatest delight is your delight in Him.” - Sam Storms “If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One who is the object of their worship.” - Marva Dawn "The worship of the living and true God is essentially an engagement with him on the terms that he proposes and in the way that he alone makes possible" - David Peterson “Certainly true worship invigorates, but to plan invigoration is not necessarily to order worship.” - JI Packer “God is not moved or impressed with our worship until our hearts are moved and impressed by Him.”  - Kelly Sparks "Worship leaders, let's choose to praise rather than perform when leading." - Tim Hughes “Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.” – John Wimber "We must never rest until everything inside us worships God." A. W. Tozer “If the Lord is to be Lord, worship must have priority in our lives. The divine priority is worship first, service second.” - Richard Foster “What is the pattern of worship that best conveys the richness of divine grace, faithfully interprets the gospel in our modern world and helpfully consolidates the body of Christ?” - Geoffrey W. Bromiley “Songs of worship arise from a life of worship.” - Tim Hughes “We need to be skilled into knowing God and His Word, then act as excellent translators of these things to the people in our churches.” - Vicki Beeching “The amazing thing about worship this side of the cross is it's proximity - its "nearness" - draw near and He draws near - all else fades” - David Ruiz "In the end, worship can never be a performance, something you're pretending or putting on. It's got to be an overflow of your heart...Worship is about getting personal with God, drawing close to God." - Matt Redman "An authentic response to who God is and what He's done...What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an ability for our community to voice things back to God. If it's unsuccessful in that, then it's just self-indulgence." - David Crowder “God is not regulated to 30 minutes of accessible group singing.” - Brenton Brown “I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” - Henry W. Beecher “We do not go to church to worship, but, already at worship, we join our brothers and sisters in continuing those actions that should have been going on-privately, family, or even corporately - all week long.” - Harold Best “Our service of worship is to respond and glorify the Lord in the name of Christ. Our acts of worship is to use song, prayer, liturgy as well as instruments, technology and the visual arts as vehicles in connecting people to Holy God.” - Branon Dempsey "To worship or not to worship" has never been the question, for all of God's created beings are inherently worshippers...It is more consistently a question of who we will worship.”  - Judson Cornwall “There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love to me is utterly realistic...to worship and love God in the thought that...He wants me as His friend, and desires to be my friend, and has given His Son to die for me in order to realize this purpose.” - J.I. Packer “Having the right posture of our heart is the first thing God looks for when we approach him.” - Scott W. Brown “The gospel of God and the love of God are expressed finally and fully in God’s gift of himself for our everlasting pleasure. “In your presence there is fullness of joy; at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” (Ps. 16.11)” - John Piper "Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner." - J.C. Ryle “Some think you discover your ministry by identifying your gifts - but actually you discover your gifts by serving in ministry.” - David Ruiz “It is not the bowing, the dancing, the clapping and the singing that produce the worship, for at best they can only express that worship, but it is the worship that produces the jubilant responses.” - Judson Cornwall “Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.” - Tim Keller “May the fruit we offer to God in worship, be a sacrifice of daily praise, as a direct result of wholly living - in the vineyard of our souls.” - Branon Dempsey “Worshipping God even amid despair is a way to defy the Adversary and declare our valuing of the good—the best—in life: the Lord!” - Jack Hayford “Worship is love responding to love.” - Judson Cornwall "The church that can’t worship must be entertained. And leaders who can’t lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment." - Tozer “We worship not a distant God, but one who calls us into intimate fellowship to respond, dwell and obey. To worship in spirit and in truth is to enter into a loving communion with God, Who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit.” - Branon Dempsey “Worship doesn't depend on the outward appearance of the worshiper or his circumstances, but on the greatness of the one who controls the circumstances and the work he has done on the inside of the worshiper.” - Steve Pruitt “All praise and glory are Yours, O Lord. Salvation comes from Your hand alone. I cannot boast about any sacrifice or suffering of my own - I can only boast in the nails in Your hands and feet, the thorns of Your brow, the wooden cross on which You died.” - Buddy Owens “Worship must go deeper than just having the best music. It is grounded on having the best heart attitude.” - Scott W. Brown "God is the Creator and the Giver of life, and the life that He gives does not run dry.” - Brenton Brown “Worship is not about the giver, but about its recipient: God. It’s not about what a person gains from the experience, but what is given to God as a response.” - Branon Dempsey “Transformed worship is a life lived in Christ and for Christ...If you are to lead engaging worship, you must first recognize your own need for Christ and His Spirit to live in you.” - John Chisum “There will never be enough thanks, never enough words nor thoughts high or deep enough to adequately convey His worth. I don’t know how to give back to the Lord what He deserves other than to just offer Him my life and every part of me.” - Kari Jobe "Singing is easy. The proof is always in the living." - Matt Redman "Just as worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. If worship does not propel us into greater obedience, it has not been worship." - Richard J. Foster "A life of worship is how we live, while the purpose of worship is one of the reasons why we live." - Rick Muchow "In the conduct of our public worship where is the authority of Christ to be found? The truth is that today the Lord rarely controls a service, and the influence He exerts is very small. We sing of Him and preach about Him, but He must not interfere; we worship our way, and it must be right because we have always done it that way, as have the other churches in our group." - A.W. Tozer “Worship is the one, total adoring response of man to the one Eternal God.” - Evelyn Underhill “The end of all worship leading is worship living. We must live our worship if we expect others to live their own worship.” - John Chisum "Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise." - Don McMinn “The inevitable fruit of vital worship will be a transformed people who become transforming instruments of God’s grace and deliverance to the world.” - J. Hayford “We may never know how big it really is as we walk each day going deeper in our faith. It might be through worship songs or acts of compassion, when we have the incredible opportunity to be a small piece of the grand plan of God.” - Derek Williams “Worship is not a regulated style, it is an active response declaring His worth from Scripture. Music is to pray through song, not to pray for our songs, but is to be reserved wholly for God.” - Branon Dempsey "Our greatest expression of worship is found in our obedience to God." - Billy Foote “Worship is not something offered only or even mainly by individuals. Rather, it is an action of God’s people. When we come together, we worship together by offering our songs, prayers, and gifts to God. When we move out into the world, we worship God as a community by living consciously as God’s people, serving him through serving others.” - Mark D. Roberts “We cannot worship rightly until we recapture, as the principle element in worship, the overwhelming sense of awe and presence of God. God’s greatness, love and compassion call forth our praise and adoration.” - Robert W. Bailey “As a worship leader, when you stand in front of the congregation, remember, you’re not addressing an audience, you’re leading a community.” - Rory Nowland “The same love that set the captives free, the same love that opened eyes to see is calling us all by name...[Rom 12.1] ‘In view of God’s mercy, offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.’” - Paul Baloche "Let my lips avoid vain repetition as I lift my voice in praise, O Lord. Distract me from my distractions, awaken me from the dullness of mind, and transform habit and routine into vibrant times of worship." - Jack Hayford “According to Scripture, our responsibility in worship is to respond to God as a daily sacrifice, not as an extra curricular event nor based upon our personal preferences, but only on the merit of His grace, mercy and sacrificial love.” - Branon Dempsey "The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit." - J.C. Ryle “In corporate worship, we emphasize offerings of words, songs, and actions, which enable us to praise, thank, love, and honor God together. Such corporate worship leads to a life of worship, in which we serve God, not just in the corporate gatherings, but also in every part of life.” - Mark D. Roberts “We have the truth that there is a God, and He is our loving Father.  We have the truth that Jesus is the Savior of the world and wishes to save everyone, even you.  We have truth that there is a Holy Spirit who empowers men and gives them light, and we have the truth that there exists a beautiful paradise.” - Pastor Kochanga (Last Spoken Words of a Martyr) “May your roots go down deep into the soil of God’s marvelous love...May you experience the love of Christ, though it is so great you will never fully understand it.” - Andy Park “Blended worship insinuates the combining of different styles of music placing the emphasis on the methodology. Unified worship points us beyond the methodology to the true heart and goal of worship as God’s people humbly come together unified in the Spirit to worship Christ!” - Scott Wesley Brown “We worship God by presenting our bodies as living sacrifices to God, thus glorifying him every waking minute of our existence.” - Mark D. Roberts “On the one hand, as our worship leader Jesus goes to the Father in our name. On the other, he comes to us in the Father’s name.” - Reggie Kidd “It is critical that we create bridges of understanding for people who may discover God through a church meeting; but it is just as important that we maintain a God-centered focus in worship.” - David Ruiz “The way of a worshiper is to be rooted in Christ and nurtured by the Holy Spirit, to continually offer the Father a sacrifice of praise - the fruit of lips to bless His name.” – Branon Dempsey “It’s a sobering reality that every song that we sing to the Lord is a duet and not a solo. In singing, we are responding to him, and in real time he is responding to us.” - David Nasser “Pastors can play a huge mentoring role in the lives of their worship leaders...most artists love working under Spirit-led leaders. It’s a joy to follow a leader who’s obviously following God.” - Rory Noland “We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right; the rest of us are just guessing.” - Rich Mullins “God is not seeking great worship, but true worshipers--a consumed people, not a consumer event. (John 4:23)” - Scotty Smith “Worship has a two-fold aspect...we lift Him up and exalt Him, and as a result are drawn into His presence where He speaks to us.” - John Wimber “It is fruitless to search for a single musical style, or even any blend of musical styles, that can assist all Christians with true worship. The followers of Jesus are a far too diverse group of people—which is exactly as it should be. We need, rather, to welcome any worship music that helps churches produce disciples of Jesus Christ.” - Michael Hamilton “We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away.” - Michael Hamilton “Worshiping God in spirit and truth involves magnifying the way God has shown his greatness in Jesus Christ and his glorious work of redemption.” - Bob Kauflin “Lord, make me see Thy glory in every place” - Michelangelo "The core of our faithful response to God is the offering of worship." - Buddy Owens “Music is the emotional expression of the soul, produced by melody, harmony and rhythm to guide our confession and adoration to Holy God.” - Branon Dempsey "It's easy to sacrifice our relationships to the work of the kingdom. But in doing so we misunderstand the work of the kingdom." - M Lloyd “Worship is the grand theme of the Bible.” - Reuben Morgan “God’s purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.” - A.W. Tozer “Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs! Play his praise on a grand piano! Invent your own new song to him;” (Ps 33:1-3 MSG) // We will! - Reuben Morgan “Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.” - Martin Luther “In some of the best worship songs we bring our praises to God - yet at the same time also end up preaching to ourselves.” - Matt Redman “Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved.” - NT Wright "Worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable." ~Stott “A service of worship is really about serving God through our response of worship.” - Branon Dempsey “We are built to worship.” - Darlene Zschech “Our heavenly Father loves us, not because of what we can do for him, but because of who we are—his sons and daughters, in whom he takes great delight. And he rejoices over us with singing.” - Buddy Owens “We see who He is and see bits of His glory and His heart and we respond by singing songs of thankfulness and worship and gratitude and praise.” - Phil Wickham “The way of a worshiper is a way of life. It’s about discovering the secret to friendship with God. It’s not so much about doing something as it is about being someone—not just doing worship, but being a worshiper.” - Buddy Owens "May the God of hope fill you with joy and peace in believing" (Rom. 15:13). Peace by believing. Peace through believing.” - John Piper “Sing something brand new out of your passion for Jesus.” - Bob Fitts “If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.’” - Paul Baloche “Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved.” -NT Wright “The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel” (which means “God with us”). - Matt. 1.23 “Christ, by highest heaven adored. Christ, the everlasting Lord, Late in time behold Him come, Offspring of a virgin's womb. Veiled in flesh the Godhead see, Hail the incarnate Deity! Pleased as Man with man to dwell; Jesus, our Immanuel!” - Charles Wesley "The great invitation of Christmas is to open our hearts to the Savior who came to end our darkness. Jesus said, “I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in Me should not abide in darkness” (Jn. 12.46) - David McCasland “This Christmas, let’s marvel that the Incarnation presents to us the fullness of God in the fullness of man, because it proclaims to us the great big gospel of the fullness of God for the fullness of man.” - Jared Wilson “Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.” - Paul David Tripp “The message of the season is not, "Let it snow" or even, "Let us shop." The real message of Christmas is, "Let us worship." That is what the wise men came to do. And that is what we should be doing as well.” - Greg Laurie “If God is left out...we do no one good in the end if we are not worshipping and leading them to worship in the acts of mercy that we do.” - John Piper "In all things, glory to God" - John Chrysostom “Pastors can play a huge mentoring role in the lives of their worship leaders...Like Asaph, most artists love working under Spirit-led leaders. It’s a joy to follow a leader who’s obviously following God.” - Rory Noland "Gratitude is the gateway to worship." - Buddy Owens “The essence of Christmas purity is not what you stand against, but what you stand in awe of, the glorious name of God.” - Jonathan Parnell “Authenticity, sincerity and compassion is what leads people in worship as God is glorified by our relationships and love for one another.” - Branon Dempsey “The worship of God….should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all peoples, at all times” - Martin Luther “Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away—but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.” - JC Ryle “What is there to be more thankful for than the coming of our God; the divine Love made humble, condescending Himself, to walk with us so that he could rescue us.” - Sarah Hart “All worship is an intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name.” - John Stott “The lyrics we choose, write, lead and sing to Him, involves selecting what is Biblical, not what is popular, we are to edify the Bride, not to elevate man.” - Branon Dempsey “If there's no Scripture in the worship set, then it's not really a worship set.” - Matt Pappa "God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart." - Izakk Walton (1683) "Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ." - Spurgeon "I love the intensity of the Psalms. No-one ever sounds bored about God or about life in the Psalms." - Matt Redman “Corporate worship is designed to remind you that your hope isn't found in your heritage or performance, but in the grace of your Savior.” - Paul Tripp "Don’t let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct." - St. Augustine “As musicians and singers, our number one job is to help the congregation worship.” - Branon Dempsey “If our worship is genuine the experience of offering praise to God should transform the way we speak and relate to others.” - Mark D. Roberts “In a service, God doesn’t “show up,” but rather, we show up by responding to His glory in worship.” - Branon Dempsey "Worshipping God in song is so glorious that it's dangerous. It can become what we worship rather than God." - John Piper “We are what we sing...our songs reflect and shape what we believe. Singing is similar to preaching. Both seek to magnify God’s glory through the word of Christ.” - Bob Kauflin "If no one in the congregation is singing, it doesn't matter how good the worship band is." - J. Michael Walters “As in the Garden and on the Cross, God continues to seek man in his love. What will you say when the Seeker comes and finds you in His worship?” - Branon Dempsey “Everyone has to lay down their preferences when we gather, finding the common denominator.” - Vicky Beeching "The Lord calls his ransomed people to sing songs of victory" - St. Athanasius “Worship is all about the response to audience of One. It’s is not about the giver of worship, but about its recipient: God.” - Branon Dempsey “Worship is a response, in which we honor, declare and praise God for who He is according to Scripture.” - Branon Dempsey "If the only prayers you said in your life were 'thank you', that would be enough" - St. Athanasius “Corporate worship is designed to remind you of the never~ending provision of God's right here, right now grace.” - Paul Tripp "When gratitude springs up in the human heart toward God, he is magnified as the wealthy source of our blessing." - John Piper “Worship is neither traditional nor contemporary; it’s a response, a way of life, not a style, nor a preference.” - Branon Dempsey “God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.” - Francis Chan “The way leaders engage in the worship experience will send a huge message to the church community about the value and expectation placed on the worship time.” - David Ruis “You step into a spiritual responsibility the moment you step on that platform.” - Darlene Zschech "The Father is looking for worshippers. So if you are looking for God and just can't seem to find him, then stop what you are doing and worship Him - and He will come and find you." - Joseph Garlington “There is something about song that expresses the inner heart of the singer that just saying the words can’t express. It allows communication from our souls.” - Steve Smith “A discovery of the glory of God in the face of Christ gives life to the soul, and this maintains life, as bread doth the life of the body.” - Jonathan Edwards “Strengthen my faith as I release to You both yesterday and tomorrow. And meet me today in the here and now, in this precious, never-to-be repeated time, in which I can simply trust You to meet my needs.” - Buddy Owens "When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything." - E. Stanley Jones “"His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with His glory." Eze. 43...quieted by His absolute holiness.” - Christy Nockles "Love is the overflow of joy in God that gladly meets the needs of others." - John Piper "Faith is a re-directing of our sight, a getting out of the focus of our own vision and getting God into focus." - A.W. Tozer “Such true worship will stand the test of Christ’s great principle, “By their fruits you shall know them”. It sanctifies the Christian’s life, and makes them walk with God, lifting them above fear and love of the world. It enables a Christian to show God to other folks. Such worship comes from heaven, and has the mark of God upon it.” - J.C. Ryle “Corporate worship is designed to once again clear up our confusion as to what is truly important in life.” - Paul Tripp “The way to get the mind of God, is seek to know the heart of God!” - Brian Houston “the Gospel does not begin in Matthew, it begins with Genesis. God is always reclaiming and restoring what is originally His. Concerning worship, as we look toward the future, we look forward to when the restoration is fully complete.” - Ian Morgan Chron “True worship doesn't keep looking at its watch.” - N.T. Wright “Jesus is infinite. he does not finish. there is no start time for Jesus. he has always existed and will always exist. and his love for us is vaster than we are able to comprehend...And i have to remind myself that God is not 30 minutes of accessible group singing.” - Brenton Brown “Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” - Martin Luther “Even with all of the different styles and cultures of worship today, the heart of worship music is the unified voice of the congregation...All the other aspects of worship are there to support the singing of the church.” - Steve Smith “It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend a meeting where the only attraction is God.” - A.W. Tozer "Don't let your church be a cul-de-sac on the Great Commission highway." - Ed Stetzer "Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter." - Francis Chan “For now we see the beauty of God through a glass, darkly, but then face to face; now we appreciate only in part, but then we shall affirm and appreciate God, even as the living God has affirmed and appreciated us. So now our tasks are worship, mission, and management, these three; but the greatest of these is worship.” — N.T. Wright "A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God." - Brennan Manning “I want nothing more in my own life than to worship God securely with the knowledge that Jesus Christ has made it possible. We are dearly loved and infinitely forgiven, and we need not be insecure about giving all we have to God every time we come together to worship him.” - Jessa Anderson “When you read for depth, meditatively and conversationally, and “let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly,”...you will find that you are becoming more and more the man or woman of God that you always wanted to be.” - Buddy Owens “It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.” - Andy Stanley “The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying him forever.” - John Piper “The Scriptures are a mystery being revealed, a song being sung, a way of life being presented. They are meant to be sought and experienced and lived.” — Robert Gelinas “I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” - Henry W. Beecher “If and when we step back up and get behind the microphone, we must do it as an instrument, not the object of praise. And we must be willing to cast off our "glittering image" so that we reflect only the glorious image of Christ.” - Sally Morgethaler “When Paul instructs about orderly worship in 1 Corinthians 14, it’s clear that New Testament worship was highly participatory. So how can we encourage the band and congregation to bring an offering that retains good order?” - Andy Chamberlain “Worship will never end; whether there be buildings, they will crumble; whether there be committees, they will fall asleep; whether there be budgets, they will add up to nothing. For we build for the present age, we discuss for the present age, and we pay for the present age; but when the age to come is here, the present age will be done away.” — N.T. Wright “If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship... If He speaks to us about His commandments, we determine to obey them.” - John Stott “The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That’s why theology and worship belong together. The one isn’t just a head-trip; the other isn’t just emotion.” — N.T. Wright “True worship doesn’t put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn’t forced, isn’t half-hearted, doesn’t keep looking at its watch, doesn’t worry what the person in the next pew is doing. True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.” - N.T. Wright “In worship we meet the power of God and stand in its strengthening.” - Nels F.S. Ferre “The way leaders engage in the worship experience will send a huge message to the church community about the value and expectation placed on the worship time.” - David Ruis "The core of our faithful response to God is the offering of worship." - Buddy Owens "The Church was never meant for 'consumers,' it was meant for disciples." - Russell Evans “Worship of the living and true God is essentially an engagement with him on the terms that he proposes and in the way that he alone makes possible.” - David Peterson “Let’s help people to be participants in free worship rather than encouraging them to think “here we are now, entertain us.” - Andy Chamberlain “When the time comes to enter into worship, leaders and congregation alike must allow the Spirit to control the service. The Word says, “Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD” (Zec. 4:6).” - Rick Muchow “Whenever we see a renewing work of the Holy Spirit, worship always accompanies His presence. He does bring empowered preaching and an impact that shakes society to its very core, but resonating at the heart of it all is a new song.” - David Ruiz “Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.” - Andrew Murray "If we are going to worship in Spirit, we must develop a spirit of worship." - Michael Catt “Our congregations today are exposed to every religion and philosophy through media and the Internet in a greater way than ever before, so we must have something of substance to say in our worship that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.” - Keith Getty “Compelling worship also enables people to express a diverse range of emotions and circumstances...they should be part of the worship canvas...if we want people to be able to bring their real selves when they come through our doors.” - Sally Morgenthaller “True worship...is about "seeing" God and responding to his glory and grace.” - Mark D. Roberts “The kingdom of God communicates more fully in our culture. It calls us, not only to personal faith in Jesus, but also to be part of His kingdom community and to join him in his work of recreating the world.” - Mark D. Roberts “Are we that consumed with him? Are we that grateful—that aware of how forgiven we are—that our fears, our selfishness, our concern about others’ opinions, all fade away in comparison to the beauty of Jesus?” - Vicky Beeching "To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God." - AW Tozer “Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.” - Piper “Isn’t it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?” - Francis Chan “To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.” - Brother Lawrence (1691) “You have made us for Yourself, oh God; and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.” - St. Augustine “As worship leaders we might use music as a tool, but music is only ever just that - a tool with which to encourage lives to be renewed and awakened to God.” - Reuben Morgan “When we sing praises to our Lord, we join in the chorus that creation has been singing from the beginning of time. And it is the same anthem that we as believers will be singing for all eternity.” - Laura Story “In worship, God, the subject, shapes us, the object, into the image of His Son so that we offer our lives to God by living into His death (dying to sin) and living into His resurrection (rising to the new life in the Spirit).” - Robert Webber “There is only One worthy of our praise (Rev.4:11) and that One desires truth, not pretense; being, not performance.” - Sally Morgethaler “As we begin to face up to the holiness of God, our lives resound with that very same anthem, here and now upon the earth." - Matt Redman “God is already among us...It’s not a matter of asking did God show up to our meeting. The question to wrestle with is this: did we show up to meet with God?” - Reuben Morgan "No one can long worship God in spirit and in truth before the obligation to holy service becomes too strong to resist." - AW Tozer “In worship we celebrate God’s sovereignty...We come boldly, but also humbly, remembering that we have the privilege of an audience with the King of kings.” - Buddy Owens "The whole person, with all his senses, with both mind and body, needs to be involved in genuine worship." - Jerry Kerns [On Multi-Generation Worship] We are part of something timeless, and the exercise of stretching our vision beyond ourselves leads us further down the road to an eternal perspective on all of life and our very reason for being.” - Keith Getty "There is no greater battle than the battle to delight in God above all else." - John Piper “All ages serve and worship the same God, gather under the same gospel and add to the collective song that praises the faithfulness of God as each generation shares in his promises to us.” - Keith Getty "Adoption is a greater mercy than Adam had in paradise." - Thomas Watson [On Worship Leading] “before any of us can engage people in the authentic, interactive adoration of God, we must first of all become worshipers.” - Sally Morgethaller “The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.” - J.I. Packer “Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.” - Oswald Chambers “The best written worship songs come out as a response to what God is doing.” - Tony Guerrero “Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majesty.” - AW Pink “The message of some churches today seems to be, "Only sing if it appeals to your sense of style, or your demographic." Yet when we look at heaven, we see that every tribe and every nation will sing together.” - Keith Getty "I will thank God for the pleasures given me through my senses, for the glory of the thunder, for the mystery of music, the singing of the birds and the laughter of children…Truly, O Lord, the earth is full of thy riches!" - Edward King “If I have the gift of speaking absolute Truth and can understand every secret God has concealed and conquer every doubt, and if I have a faith that can move trending topics on twitter, but do not have love, I am nothing.” - Spencer Burke "God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation." - Charles H. Spurgeon “Media is a servant. It can obediently convey meaning and give context when wielded by spiritually mature, discerning operators. Video and lighting, once in competition for ambience, now function as a singular device, bringing light and imagery to the service of worship.” - Kent Morris “As we gaze upon the wonders of creations, we look up towards the heights of a God who is merciful in His ways and magnificent in His deeds. The life of worship always points us upwards.” - Matt Redman “I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: "Jesus Christ lives here." - Leonard Sweet "Without worship, we go about miserable." - A.W. Tozer "The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance." - C.S. Lewis "Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise." - Don McMinn "A glimpse of God will save you. To gaze at Him will sanctify you." - Manley Beasle “If God is left out...we do no one good in the end if we are not worshipping and leading them to worship in the acts of mercy that we do.” - John Piper “We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.” -  Edmund Clowney "Even if you have a vision from God and faith to trust Him, unless you start acting, nothing is going to happen." - Peter Horrobin “Mixing worship is much more than turning knobs. It requires thick skin, a soft heart, a quick wit, and a sprinkling of political acumen. When performed correctly, though, it is one of the most rewarding ministries available in the church today.” - Kent Morris “Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dusty—without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body is not enfleshed in a healthy way.” - Marva Dawn “Faith is to believe what we do not see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.” - Augustine "As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life." - Richard Foster “Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” - Francis of Assisi "If we are going to worship in Spirit, we must develop a spirit of worship." - Michael Catt "Many times we stand in the way of really stepping into the secret place of worship with God. Just abandon tradition and the "expected" ways of praise & worship and get lost in the Holy of Holies with the sole intention of blessing the Fathers heart." - Jessica Leah Springer "God promises He will make His presence known in their midst...where God's people consistently neglect true spiritual worship, His manifest presence is rarely experienced." - Ralph Mahoney "Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we ourselves enter into what can become our richest and most wholesome experience in life." - Graham Kendrick “It is faith that looks up at the creator God and knows him to be the God of love. And it is faith that looks out at the world with the longing to bring that love to bear in healing reconciliation, and hope.” — N.T. Wright “To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.” - Martin Luther "In Christ, individually and corporately, we should be looking for ways to express unity – in combined services, united gospel action, exchange of ministries and gifts, and the sharing of resources like music (across cultural boundaries)." - David Peterson “God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us. When Adam sinned it was not He who cried, ‘God, where art Thou?’ It was God who cried, ‘Adam, where art thou?’” - AW Tozer “If our lyrical focus is on His truth more than just our own, our songs are more likely to remain useful for the people who sing them...if there's anything enduring that our hymns reveal it's that there is power and comfort found in the truth about our God.” - David Ruiz “Worship is a meeting at the centre so that our lives are centred in God and not lived eccentrically.” - Edmund Clowney "Beauty and art from Scripture finds it way into the heart and awakens the soul of creativity." - Branon Dempsey “While we have the freedom to share our love for God with Him and His people in our own language, let's make sure that what we are writing about is orthodox and embraces the "whole counsel of Scripture."” - Brenton Brown "God is honored by broken people coming together desperate for him, not bubbly people acting like they have it all together." - Piper “It is critical that we create bridges of understanding for people who may discover God through a church meeting; but it is just as important that we maintain a God-centered focus in worship.” - David Ruiz “The more we genuinely encounter God in worship, the more every other part of life, including our relationships, will be transformed by His presence and grace.” - Buddy Owens “Sound theology should remind you as the worship leader that you are not the mediator of people’s worship, Jesus is.” - Josh Dix “Worship is not an external activity precipitated by the right environment. To worship in spirit is to draw near to God with an undivided heart. We must come in full agreement without hiding anything or disregarding His will.” - Erwin Lutzer “O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.” - Augustine “The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you.” - Fredrick Buechner “Just as water ever seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds you abased and empty, His glory and power flow in.” - Andrew Murray ”Why is it that our hearts connect better in the fellowship of weakness and hope rather than in the arena of competence and performance?” - Scotty Smith “Worship in the New Testament means believing the gospel and responding with one’s whole life and being to the person and work of God’s Son, in the power of the Holy Spirit.” - David Peterson "He who sings, prays twice." - Augustine “We celebrate the grace of God for the hope we have because the Holy Spirit poured into our hearts (Rom 5:5), and we celebrate the power of God at work within us because it is Christ who lives in us (Gal 2). Praise God from whom all blessings flow.” - John D. Witvliet “You have gone into the Temple and found Him, as always, there.” - CS Lewis “God's house is a house of prayer. Jesus is the Text, and He is our worship leader. In the attempts to make God's house an exciting and relevant place to the culture...music is to serve the community in its active listening and dialogue with God.” - Chuck Fromm “We worship God, not because He insulates us from struggles but because He is a compassionate, consoling Father Who meets us in the midst of our suffering.” - Buddy Owens “By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord.” - Charles Spurgeon "To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear. " - AW Tozer “Lord Jesus, only you can change our hearts, and grace always runs downhill, always. We tremble to ask this, but expose our pride; humble our attitudes; and soften our hearts. Make us prefer the hidden place of service over the public place of being noticed.” - Scotty Smith “Some will worship God willingly in this age. Some will worship God forcibly in defeat in the age to come. But every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord.” - Holland Davis “The same power that brought Christ back from the dead is operative within those who are Christ’s. The Resurrection is an ongoing thing.” - Leon Morris “Genuine worship is the natural and proper response to the revelation of the holy Lord God of glory. It will bring about reverential fear, confession, sacrifice, praise, and commitment...become one in the Lord, and walk in righteousness.” - Allen P. Ross “True leadership means to receive power from God and use it under God’s rule to serve people in God’s way.” - Leighton Ford “Congregations should be encouraged to learn music which may be unfamiliar in style and even outside their comfort zone, for the sake of Christ and the edification of the church on a wider scale.” - David Peterson “Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.” - Martin Luther “Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue. Gods voice in response to mine is its most essential part.” - Andrew Murray "Worship is our first or foundational ministry. It is not our only ministry, but the one that all other spheres of ministry should be built upon." - Carl Tuttle ““A healthy church, with a healthy music ministry, will include the old and the new, the familiar and the foreign - not for the sake of novelty but in order to experience the richness and variety God has provided for his people.” - David Peterson  "Christians Sing: Remember God's word, respond to God's grace, reflect God's glory.” - Bob Kauflin “I find joy and peace in the presence of God and the Holy Spirit sustains that worship, renewing my mind and restoring my heart...His radiance inspires us and enables us to bring Him the adoration due His name.” - Laura Story “This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.” - CS Lewis “The most essential question in solitude is: How have I been wanting to be with God, and how has God been wanting to be with me?” - Ruth H. Barton “To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.” - Martin Luther “God is with us both in the Garden and in our current day; His presence inhabits our praises. He desires our worship in surrendering ourselves as living sacrifices.” - Branon Dempsey [Creativity In Society] "We should be able to articulate, the things of God in a very creative manner and redeem that art back for the Lord because we have something to sing about.” - Rita Baloche “Worshiping God together in song is meant to deepen the relationships we enjoy through the gospel.” - Bob Kauflin “His purpose is simply to draw us closer to Himself in conscious communion with Him.” - JI Packer “Lead worshipers: Our primary task is simply to help others worship.” - Paul Baloche "David knew that the very quality of his worship was not based on his own volition but on the object of his worship - the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Though our affections for God may wax and wane, His character is unchanging!  We even see David speaking to his own soul, demanding of it, “Bless the Lord!” - Laura Story “Worship is about God relationship. I need to remember to keep it that simple.” - Reuben Morgan “When the Westminster Shorter Catechism teaches us, "Man's chief end is to glorify God and enjoy him forever," it gives witness to this same basic principle; God created us to worship him...Worship must above all serve the glory of God.” - Hughes Oliphant “Worship is a meeting at the centre so that our lives are centred in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.” - Edmund Clowney “The music of worship carries our souls into the courts of His praise, while our emotions are guided to make confessions unto Holy God.” - Branon Dempsey “As we surrender ourselves to Him as Mary did, we become vessels through which God can bring new life, hope, healing, and light into this world.” - Vicky Beeching “Worship is not long-distance communication; it is intimate communion. We share in the very life of God. We love God because we are filled with His love, the unparalleled love given through Jesus Christ.” - Buddy Owens “Our worship team exists to serve [the] church family at home and to help enlarge people's view of God...If we ever stray from this as our core reason for being, we totally miss the point.” - Reuben Morgan “The Scriptures are a mystery being revealed, a song being sung...life being presented. They are meant to be sought and experienced and lived.” — Robert Gelinas “Whenever we see a renewing work of the Holy Spirit, worship always accompanies His presence. He does bring empowered preaching and an impact that shakes society to its very core, but resonating at the heart of it all is a new song.” - David Ruiz “By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord.” - Charles Spurgeon “I want to be a worshiper with that heart-desperate to be as close to my Savior as possible, and following his every move and step.” - Vicky Beeching “If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship.” - John Stott ”Acceptable worship means approaching or engaging with God on the terms that he proposes and in the manner that he makes possible.” - David Peterson “Worship must inspire a different ethic among the people, which in turn will have an impact on society.” - Allen Ross “Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song.” - Charles Spurgeon “There is an everlasting kindness / You lavished on us / When the Radiance of heaven / Came to rescue the lost; / You called the sheep without a shepherd / To leave their distress / For your streams of forgiveness / And the shade of Your rest.” [The Compassion Hymn] - Keith & Kristyn Getty and Stuart Townend, © 2008 Thankyou Music “Let us make sure that the worship services we plan and conduct present that Truth in all its clarity and beauty and goodness.” - Marva Dawn “You step into a spiritual responsibility the moment you step in that platform.” - Darlene Zschech “My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love. What does that mean? What it means for me: a study of the life of Christ.” - Bono “A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.” - C.S. Lewis “If God speaks to us about himself and his own glorious greatness, we respond by humbling ourselves before him in worship.” - John Stott “Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?” - N.T. Wright “Change is the most feared word in the Church; Patience is the most feared word in Worship Ministries.” - Branon Dempsey “Some of the most remarkable and profound worship encounters I've experienced have happened in churches with no production, no lighting, no exciting visuals or amplification, sometimes with not even a single musical instrument.” - Tim Hughes “The question is not whether you have a devotional life; it is whether or not you are living a devotional life – which is an invitation to re-encounter the living Jesus.” - David Ruiz "When we worship together as a community of living Christians, we do not worship alone, we worship 'with all the company of heaven." - Marianne H. Micks “We must have something of substance to say in our worship [services] that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.” - Keith Getty “It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.” - CS Lewis "Worship doesn’t merely involve enacting the cultural rituals of worship or personal piety, but more importantly, it involves how we treat others...Following God in full obedience in as an act of worship, which means that acting justly is part of what it means to worship God.” - Julie Clawson “Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of biblical worship.” - Piper “It matters a lot less if everyone hits the right note, or if the band hits the right solo...It’s letting God work through each of us to connect with Him both as individuals and as the Church.” - Cole NeSmith “To great sections of the church, the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program." This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the public service which now passes for worship among us.” - AW Tozer "What we need is not more learning, not more eloquence, not more persuasion, not more organization, but more power from the Holy Spirit." - John Stott “Before we give ourselves away in mercy to man, we give ourselves away in worship to God.” - Piper “God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.” - Sam Storms “Rather than relying on my skills, the musical ability of my band or the technical expertise of our production team, I want to learn to rely on the leading of the Holy Spirit. Only then will our churches come alive in worship.” - Tim Hughes “Worship is our innermost being responding with praise for all that God is, through our attitudes, actions, thoughts, and words, based on the truth of God as He has revealed Himself.” - John MacArthur "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Berthold Auerbach "Your accord and harmonious love is a hymn to Jesus Christ...in perfect harmony, and taking your pitch from God, you may sing in unison and in one voice to the Father through Jesus Christ." - Ignatius of Antioch “The clearer our vision of the new heaven & new earth, the more we will be engaged in transformational ministry here & now.” - Scotty Smith “As the Lord reveals His intentions, passion is stirred in me to sing His words over our broken world for its comfort, healing, and hope.” - Jennie Riddle "The deepest longing of the human heart is to know and enjoy the glory of God. We were made for this. " - John Piper “Build patterns on time with God into your life when your worship leading...Never let your time leading on a public stage eclipse what’s going on with you and God behind closed doors.” - Vicky Beeching “Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing...and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound, but offered to God continually.” - John Wesley “Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.” - Martin Luther “Worship is a believer's response to God's revelation of Himself. It is expressing wonder, awe, and gratitude for the worthiness, the greatness, and the goodness of our Lord.” - Nancy L. DeMoss “The goal of evangelism and the goal of Church is ultimately to glorify God, to worship. I think as worship leaders we just need to stay focused on the main thing.” - Reuben Morgan “When leading worship, if we are not following what the Holy Spirit does, what are we doing?” - Branon Dempsey "Worship leaders have a unique responsibility in connecting the doctrines of God's Word to the hearts of God's people.” - Jeff Ling “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.” - John Piper “Worship is the heart poured out in gratitude and awe, expressing our appreciation of who He is and what He has done for us by His grace through Jesus Christ.” - Dave Hunt “If we even begin to comprehend the risen Christ in all his glory...the heavenly choirs that surround the throne...life in the presence of the Lord...then we can never be satisfied with worship as usual.” - Allen Ross “Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found 'in spirit and truth.' It is kindled within us only when the Spirit of God touches our human spirit.” - Richard J. Foster “If God is left out...we do no one good in the end if we are not worshipping and leading them to worship in the acts of mercy that we do.” - John Piper “If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.” - DL Moody "Worship is recognizing God for who He is; it is ascribing worth to Him; it is God's people telling Him about the worth they see in Him. In fact, worship could very well be thought of as 'worth-ship.'" - Don Weaver “God wants us to worship Him. He doesn't need us, for He couldn't be a self-sufficient God and need anything or anybody, but He wants us.” - AW Tozer “The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.” - C.S. Lewis “when you look at setting your mind on things above in terms of heaven...It means being who I was always created to be in the real light of Jesus-the person I was actually created to know.” - Phil Wickham “When we lead worship we should be looking for the activity of God...our response is also a partaking of the worship that is going on in heaven.” - Stuart Townend “True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.” - N.T. Wright “Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God’s truth, not its own.” - N.T. Wright “I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.” - Thomas Aquinas "Even in the desert, we find His streams of living water that can not only quench our thirst, but can fill our empty hearts to be full of praise." - Branon Dempsey “What we sing is so fundamental in the formation of a believer's heart and mind as it also shapes our imagination and memory.” - Keith Getty “He will be the sure foundation for your times...” (Isa. 33.6)  “Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.” - Albert Schweitzer "Worship begins with God, not with us." - Buddy Owens “True worship doesn’t put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn’t forced, isn’t half-hearted, doesn’t keep looking at its watch, doesn’t worry what the person in the next pew is doing.” - NT Wright An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.” - AW Tozer “The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.” - JI Packer "When our Advent journey ends, and we reach the place where Jesus resides in Bethlehem, may we, like the wise men, fall on our knees and adore him as our true and only King." - Mark Zimmermann “The family of God is the choir, and God is their audience.” - Keith Getty “Whenever we see a renewing work of the Holy Spirit, worship always accompanies His presence...resonating at the heart of it all is a new song.” - David Ruiz "[Our] plan is to follow the example of the prophets and the ancient fathers of the church, and to compose psalms...so that the Word of God may be among the people also in the form of music." - Martin Luther “Our congregations today are exposed to every religion and philosophy through media and the Internet in a greater way than ever before, so we must have something of substance to say in our worship that reminds us why Christ's story is so unique and so utterly essential.” - Keith Getty “Jesus taught us that the first commandment is to love God with all one's heart, all one's soul and all one's mind.  As Jesus saw it, the first principle of worship is that worship above all should love God.” - Hughes Oliphant “Look at your ministry as a marathon not a sprint - build deep foundations of intimacy with God and never let your public schedule get fuller than your time alone with God.” - Vicky Beeching “The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.” - Billy Graham “Prayer is the path of spiritual progress and growth in intimacy with the God who has made us His.” - JR Vassar “Worship should not be primarily about the worship leader up front, but about the worship leader serving as a conduit to allow the family of God to sing together to their Creator.” - Keith Getty “To worship “in truth” means that we worship God as He has revealed Himself...Genuine worship responds to God’s truthful revelation in His Word.” - Mark D. Roberts “Doubt not but the ship will come safe to land; though Christ seem to be asleep, the prayers of His disciples will wake Him, and He will rebuke the winds and the waves...if God be in it, it shall not be consumed.” - Matthew Henry [On Mt. 8:23-27] “I think it's of huge importance to us as worship leaders...to ask ourselves these two questions: What were the words we put into our congregation's mouths, minds, and memories? And how well did our congregation sing? Our role is simply to be an accompaniment to them as they sing.” -Keith Getty "He is the route to worship, the reason for worship, and the reality of worship." - Judson Cornwall “Paul commands the Church to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly when we meet together, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. It seems clear here that style is not the important issue as much as the depth of content.” - Keith Getty "We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work." - AW Tozer "God first seeks devotion to Him in the hidden place–worship when no one else is watching." - Matt Redman “Our love to God is measured by our everyday fellowship with others and the love it displays.” - Andrew Murray "Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough" - Garrison Keillor “Thanksgiving provides a salutary occasion for saying thanks, both to the God from whom all blessings flow and to those who are conduits of divine blessings in our lives. It's a time to stop what we're doing and say "Thank you" to the people in our lives who deserve to hear this from us. “ - Mark D. Roberts “To worship God in truth is to recognize Him for being who He is, and to recognize ourselves for what we are.” Brother Lawrence “The worshiping artist is someone who does his or her art as a deliberate act of worship to the Triune God... uniquely gifted and stirred up to do God’s work.” - Rory Noland “Jesus, raise up lead worshippers to be our worship leaders. Skill is great, but gospel astonishment is best.” - Scotty Smith “This joy that He brings us transcends every human trial, it is a joy that can strengthen even the weakest of hands” - Brenton Brown "Our hope is that we who are in Christ are the eternal objects of God's love and that nothing, absolutely nothing, can change that status or rob us of its privilege." - JR Vassar "To worship in spirit is to draw near to God with an undivided heart. We must come in full agreement without hiding anything or disregarding His will." - Erwin Lutzer “If you are pleased with me, teach me Your ways so I may know You and continue to find favor with You. Remember that this nation is Your people.” - Moses (Ex. 33.13) “The real issue is pastors and worship leaders taking responsibility for what their churches are singing..truth based affections, and making sure good fruit is being produced.” - Bob Kauflin “If our services of worship are not propelling us into worship service, then we are worshipping worship more than God.” - Scotty Smith “It is impossible to worship God acceptably and not come to Him in right relationship to...the Word of God.” - Jack Hayford “To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.”- Martin Luther “In some churches the quest for “excellence” is an idol...needs to be replaced with the quest to pursue the likeness of Christ crucified and him alone.” - Reggie Kidd “Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing.” - Charles Spurgeon “God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.” - Hudson Taylor “Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust.” - EM Bounds "Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?" - Francis Chan “My vocation is love” - Mother Theresa, Etched into the wall of her modest bedroom “When your humanness is confronted by the magnificence and holiness of God, you are made SO aware of your need for God’s grace...Romans 12:1 teaches us how to live this life of worship and love.” - Darlene Zschech “Above any other message during his time on earth, it was the nearness of God’s kingdom that Jesus preached most about.” - Brenton Brown "Connecting worship to compassion means that we allow God to move us beyond empty rituals and into community with those He loves and gave his Son to save." - Branon Dempsey “God as we ought to worship Him. God is Spirit, so we must worship Him in spirit and truth, that is, by a humble and true adoration of spirit in the depth and centre of our souls.” - Brother Lawrence “God Himself is here waiting for our response to His Presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality.” - A.W. Tozer “How different our lives would be if we were to begin each day by saying: ‘I exist for the primary purpose of praising God. That’s why I’m alive today!’” - Mark D. Roberts “The presence of Christ brings us his power and ability to use our limited resources in limitless ways.” - Rebecca M. Pippert “Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.” - Carl Tuttle “In worship, God imparts himself to us.” -C.S. Lewis "Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you." - Corrie Ten Boom "Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one." -NT Wright “Faith is blind...to impossibilities and deaf to doubt. It listens only to God.” - Samuel D. Gordon “When we worship God as we ought that's when the nations listen.” - Edmund Clowney “Soak in the shadow of Jesus. Saturate your soul with the ways of Jesus. Watch Him. Listen to Him. Stand in awe of Him. Let Him overwhelm you with the way He is.” - Piper “It makes an e-e-enormous amount of difference if you face conflict in your own strength – or if you face it with Jesus.” — Bill Lane “Fervent seeking after God with the whole heart, without which no one can know Him, has always been the mark of His true followers.” - Dave Hunt “There is no substitute for being alone with God and cultivating your worship relationship with Him. God is jealous for that.” - Brian Doerksen “As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.” — N.T. Wright “The simplest principle I can state about justice interwoven in worship is to not assume that the marginalized, the poor and the broken of our culture and society are a distraction.” - David Ruiz “The fruit of the Spirit wasn't intended to be a list of goals for us to produce - it is the Holy Spirit through us who produces fruit.” - Dan Kimball “Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.” - Oswald Chambers "All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him" - Martin Luther “The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That’s why theology and worship belong together.” — N.T. Wright “The way leaders engage in the worship experience will send a huge message to the church community about the value and expectation placed on the worship time.” - David Ruis “God puts people in our paths every day and asks us to invest in them, love them, and draw them into our communities. We’ll never be able to follow that command unless we are known by our love…love that’s unconditional and without agenda.” - Rachel Cox “Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found 'in spirit and truth.' It is kindled within us only when the Spirit of God touches our human spirit.” - Richard J. Foster “It would seem that we are at risk of creating a church culture in which aesthetics and entertainment become the watermark for a great worship experience.” - David Ruis “What is the pattern of worship that best conveys the richness of divine grace, faithfully interprets the gospel in our modern world and helpfully consolidates the body of Christ?” - Geoffrey W. Bromiley “God does not choose those who are fit. He outfits those whom He chooses.” - Jack Hyles Soul: "Lord, why was your side opened with a spear?" Christ: "That you might have a way to come near to My heart." - Lewis Bayly "I've always been skeptical of those television healers who are bald. If I had that gift, that'd be the first thing I'd fix." - Tony Campolo "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet." - Frederick Buechner “It is amazing where God will take you when you are willing to follow. Life is full of surprises when we choose mystery over security.” - Erwin McManus “Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness.” - J.I. Packer “Leave the broken, irreversible past in God's hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.” - Oswald Chambers “He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our Maker's praise without anxiety.” - A.W. Tozer “Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't.” - John Piper "Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man," (Mark 1:41).  --  "I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it." - Thomas Aquinas "True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie." - A.W. Tozer “Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.” - Alexander MacLaren “I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.” - Elisabeth Elliot “Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world; first a dawning; then a light; and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness.” - Thomas Adams “If we would talk more about the Lord and praise Him, we would have less time to talk about ourselves.” - M.R. DeHaan “A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.” - Albert Schweitzer “The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.” - C.S. Lewis “Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.” - Henry Ward Beecher “Worship is our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father. Its central reality is found 'in spirit and truth.' It is kindled within us only when the Spirit of God touches our human spirit.” - Richard J. Foster “Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.” - John Bunyan “Men are God's method. The church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.” - E.M. Bounds "Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called 'The rejoicing of hope.'" - William Gurnall "But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross." - Bono "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." - Henry W. Beecher "Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God." - Erwin Lutzer "And it is through conflict that God induces the believer to seek and to grasp total triumph in Christ." - Watchman Nee "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King Jr. "study to practice in life that which the Lord commands, and then be you assured that you shall never hear nor read the same without fruit." - John Knox "A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father." - Austin L. Sorensen "Family Worship increases the spirit of reverence for God and His Word." - Rev. M. Simpson "His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me." - JB Torrance "worship...is evoked by Christ, through the Spirit, in such a way that He is the One who acts in us and through us, so that our worship becomes real worship in Spirit and in Truth." - JB Torrance "I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven." - A.W. Tozer "Worship is recognizing God for who He is; it is ascribing worth to Him; it is God's people telling Him about the worth they see in Him." - Don Weaver “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” - Amy Carmichael "Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world." - Martin Luther "If the corporate worship in the church leaves people unchanged, the church is not really worshipping." - John MacArthur "To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God." - AW Tozer "Our greatest expression in worship to God is obedience." - Billy Foote "All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him." - Martin Luther "The person who would worship God must therefore have a faithful commitment to the Word of God." - John MacArthur "When our hearts are too heavy to exult with praise, we can still worship God by doing His will." - Mark D. Roberts "When you have learned God's secret of trusting, you will see that a life yielded up to His working is one of rest and power." - Catherine Jackson "I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love." - Henry Ward Beecher "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot "God gives us the grace to accomplish what He calls us to do. His commands are also His promise of victory." - Floyd McClung Jr. "God is Someone who creates something out of nothing. He takes emptiness and creates wholeness, He takes darkness and speaks light. Because of this, we can come to God empty and weak knowing that He takes us and with His power makes something out of nothing." - Vicki Beeching "Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship." - N.T. Wright "The Lord loves holiness and transparency, and I think that if we are to worship Him properly and lead others to do the same, our day to day lives have to reflect that." - Kathryn Scott "Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life." - William Law "Music is the art of the prophets, the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us." - Martin Luther “Worship is the believer’s response of all that they are – mind, emotions, will, body – to what God is and says and does.” - Warren Wiersbe [on church worship] "an authentic response to who God is and what He's done...What we do is useful to the extent that it provides an ability for our community to voice things back to God. If it's unsuccessful in that, then it's just self-indulgence." - David Crowder "Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things...and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise." - James R. Miller "I can write some songs with some clever lyrics all day long -- and they may be great -- but if it's not lining up with the Word of God, and if it's not really speaking to people's hearts about who God is, then it's pretty empty, you know?" - Meredith Andrews "We magnify Him who is worthy above all others and adore Him simply because of who He is." - Jack Hayford "God hath given unto you Christ Jesus, the greatest gift He had; and since your heart is laid out for Him, He will with Him give you all things that are good for you in their season." - William Guthrie of Fenwick (1665) "What is it that God has given you to do well? Be grateful for that. While we're busy envying someone else's talents, we forget about what God has given us...Stop viewing yourself as one of the have-nots. It's not true. In God's eyes there are no have-nots." - Rory Noland "God hath given unto you Christ Jesus, the greatest gift He had; and since your heart is laid out for Him, He will with Him give you all things that are good for you in their season." - William Guthrie of Fenwick (1665) "Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see." - William Newton Clarke "Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection." - Watchman Nee "It makes sense that the first word of Jesus from the cross is a word of forgiveness. That's the point of the cross, after all. Jesus was dying so that we might be forgiven for our sins, so that we might be reconciled to God for eternity." - Mark D. Roberts “The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That’s what God did. At the loss of His Son’s life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift – the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.” - John Piper "Those who have a heart to do good, never need complain for want of opportunity." - Matthew Henry "The presence of His indwelling is my rest. Tend sheep and feed on His faithfulness. To delight in the Lord is to commit to His trust and believe He is true and true to His promises." - Branon Dempsey "God puts his ear so closely down to your lips that he can hear your faintest whisper." - Thomas Talmage (1902) "Those that set God always before them and walk before him with all their hearts, shall find him as good as his word and better; he will both keep covenant with them and show mercy to them." - Matthew Henry "When we realize how desperately we need God, and how God is faithful far beyond our desperation, we can’t help but offering our lives to him in fresh gratitude." - Mark D. Roberts "I seek the will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined...If the Holy Spirit leads us, He will do it according to the Scriptures and never contrary to them." - George Muller "The nature of worship...is to offer God worship from the depths of our inner beings in praise, prayer, song, giving, and living, always based upon His revealed truth." - John MacArthur "The Lord is my strength, my strong rock, my defense, my deliverer, the horn of my salvation, and my refuge. Amen." - Lancelot Andrews (1626). "I learned as never before that persistent calling upon the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times, there is simply no other way." - Jim Cymbala "God likes His people to believe that there is nothing too hard for Him...We are all the time limiting God's power by our own ideas. Let us get our eyes off one another and fix them upon God. There is nothing to hard for Him." - Dwight L. Moody "The best tests of my Christian growth occur in the mainstream of life, not in the quietness of my study" - Charles R. Swindoll "Music is a tool. Lighting is a tool. Power point is a tool. Getting those things right is not the goal. God is the goal. Those are just tools. And we can real easily turn into worshippers of all the tools, rather than remembering that this is simply a tool to get the job done which is to help connect people with God and to help inspire people." - Lincoln Brewster "The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the Divine Author makes a true revelation of His Word, explaining it to every heart, unfolding it in every moment." - Jean-Pierre de Caussade "Approach the Bible not only as a book which once spoken, but a book which is now speaking. God's speaking is in the continuous present." - A.W. Tozer "The church is described as belonging not to the people by whom it is constituted...nor to the districts to which they belong...but rather to the one who has brought it into existence (that is, God) or the one through whom this has taken place (that is, Christ)." - Robert Banks "Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man." - Erwin McManus "Those that abide in Christ as their heart's desire shall have, through Christ, their heart's desire." - Matthew Henry "It is ours to offer what we can. God's to supply what we cannot." - Saint Jerome (c.420) "Worship involves nothing less than offering up our whole lives to God so that all we do is in conformity with God's character and standards rather than with the attitudes and values of the world." - Rick Muchow "This road we travel is not so much about the finish line as it is about the community you run the race with. When a community keeps their eyes on the bigger picture they remember that this ministry is not their ministry, it's God's." - Derek Williams "if we hold fast our confidence in Him, but our faith is also, by the exercise, strengthened: and so it comes, that, if we walk with God in any measure of uprightness of heart, the trials of faith will be greater and greater." - George Muller "You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; and just so you learn to love God and man by loving." - St. Francis of Sales "Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come." - AW Tozer "Waiting for God means power to do nothing save under command. This is not lack of power to do anything. Waiting for God needs strength rather than weakness. It is power to do nothing. It is the strength that holds strength in check. It is the strength that prevents the blundering activity which is entirely false and will make true activity impossible when the definite command comes." - G. Campbell Morgan "Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you." - Corrie Ten Boom "All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him." - Martin Luther "Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence." - A. W. Tozer "Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen." - Peter Marshall "In His wisdom God does not show us all that lies ahead. So we enter a New Year to live it day by day. What is past is past. Today we start anew, and what we do today will make our life for tomorrow."  - William T. Hanzsche "Lord Jesus, master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas. We whose hearts are heavy seek the joy of your presence. We are your people, walking in darkness, yet seeking the light. To you we say, 'Come Lord Jesus!'" - Henri Nouwen "I believe God, through His Spirit, grants us love, joy, and peace no matter what is happening in our lives. As Christians, we shouldn't expect our joy to always feel like happiness, but instead recognize joy as inner security -- a safeness in our life with Christ." - Jill Briscoe "Give me the Love that leads the way / The Faith that nothing can dismay / The Hope no disappointments tire / The Passion that'll burn like fire / Let me not sink to be a clod / Make me Thy fuel, Flame of God" — Amy Carmichael (Advent) "The event of Christ is the only event in human history that promises relocation and centering, meaning and purpose. This promise and its fulfillment evoke passionate and heartfelt praise and thanks, especially for those aware of their own brokenness and the healing which Christ brings into their lives." - Robert Webber "Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts a shadow of our burden behind us." - Samuel Smiles. "Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace." - Karl Barth "Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes." - Claude Debussy "Advent is the season of the church year that ignites that longing in our hearts. Before we rush into “Happy Holidays,” we pause and let longing rise up within us. Throughout Advent we catch glimpses of a better world." - Mathew Woodley “Christianity has always been the hope of God through Jesus played out in the lives of real people living in real circumstances.” - Doug Pagitt "The Christian who walks with the Lord and keeps constant communion with Him will see many reason for rejoicing and thanksgiving all day long." - Warren Wiersbe "Those will soon come to make nothing of God that will not be content to make him their all." - Matthew Henry (1714) “To be hungry is not enough; I must be really starving to know what is in his heart towards me. When the prodigal son was hungry he went to feed upon husks, but when he was starving, he turned to his Father.” - J N Darby "A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent. " - Dietrich Bonhoeffer "Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!" - Henry Ward Beecher "True thanksgiving means that we need to thank God for what He has done for us, and not to tell Him what we have done for Him." - George R. Hendrick "Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God."  - Diana Robinson "God created us to be channels of blessing, but our ability to receive the resources with which He wants us to bless others, depends on our being able to give then away - freely, faithfully, generously." - Jack Hayford "Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to his love, and the future to His providence." - St. Augustine of Hippo “The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving...God gave the best gift – the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.”  - John Piper "Our old history ends with the cross; our new history begins with the resurrection." - Watchman Nee “You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.” - Amy Carmichael "And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made." - Alfred Edward Housman "At that moment, I cried out to God and lifted those burdens to the Lord and said, "Lord Jesus, I can't change me or the mess I've gotten myself into--but you can!" And you know what? He did change me!" - Dennis Jernigan "In the Old Testament, God dealt with His people as a nation...Their relationship was completely external. But in the New Covenant, the presence of God moved out of the temple and into our hearts." - John Chisum “And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.” – Abraham Lincoln "You have made us for yourself, and our hearts find no rest until they find it in You." - St. Augustine of Hippo "Part of the power of song is that it is a beautiful expression of devotion...singing releases the pent-up joy and thanksgiving we feel because of God's grace and goodness." - Jack Hayford "Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age...are not afraid that any truth of science will destroy Christianity, or any revolution will overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven." - Henry van Dyke "God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself." - Francois Fenelon “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.” - St. Francis of Assisi "To live in the present, we must deeply believe that what is most important is in the here and now." - Henri Nouwen "If the vessel of our soul is still battered by winds or by storm, let us call on our Lord who rests therein. He will soon calm the sea." - Bro. Lawrence of the Resurrection (1691) "The glory of friendship is...the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him." - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Father is looking for worshipers. So if you are looking for God and just can't seem to find him, then stop what you are doing and worship Him - and He will come and find you." - Joseph Garlington "We never know what ripples of healing we set in motion by simply smiling on one another." - Henry Drummond "Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last." - Publilius Syrus "We are all strings in the concert of God's joy." - Jakob Bohme "The branch of the vine does not worry, and toil, and rush here to seek for sunshine, and there to find rain. No; it rests in union and communion with the vine...Let us so abide in the Lord Jesus." - Hudson Taylor "Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world." - Martin Luther "Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see." - WIlliams N. Clarke (1912) "God seeks from us not nice words, but intimate relationship, even and especially when that relationship is being refined in the fire of adversity." - Buddy Owens "I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live." - Eccl. 3.12 "God not only wants to break the outer man...He wants our spirit and our soul...our inner man and outer man to be separated from each other." - Watchman Nee. "God is not looking for alms; God is looking for action. He is not just looking for our loose change - He's looking for a tighter contract between us and our neighbor." - Bono "The work of God happens when the people of God labor." - Mark D. Roberts God gives us grace to accomplish what he calls us to do...when we come to the end of what is impossible for us, then we can see God do the impossible" - Floyd McClung Jr. "The Bible speaks of a time when all tears shall be wiped away. But it makes no mention of a time when we shall cease to smile." - J.D. Eppinga (2008) "God created the world out of nothing, and as long as we are nothing, he can make something out of us." - Martin Luther "It’s difficult to be haughty and proud when a hard physical reminder of what pride cost the Savior casts a shadow on your own personal spotlight.” - John Fischer "When our hearts are too heavy to exult with praise, we can still worship God by doing His will." - Buddy Owens "Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things...He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise." - JR Miller (1912) "Grant us so to die daily to sin, that we may evermore live with him in the joy of his resurrection;" - Book of Common prayer "Christ engaged the powers of darkness first, and foiled them, which animates us for our conflicts; and it is in him that we are more than conquerers. - Matthew Henry (1714) "Christ comes to daily life and work, and turns our failure to new vision. For your love and goodness we give you thanks, O God." - Bosco Peters "When our strength comes from you, it is strength indeed; but when our own strength is all we have, it is feebleness. You give refreshment and true strength."- Augustine of Hippo (430) "God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals himself." Frederick Buechner "Character is more important to God than worldly success. You will derive more contentment from being the person God wants you to be than being successful in the eyes of the world." - Rory Noland "God puts his ear so closely down to your lips that he can hear the faintest whisper...so close up that when you pray to him, it is more a kiss than a whisper." - TDW Talmage (1902)  "As we give the gifts of compassion and humility, our lives become demonstrations of the truth of God's Word." - Floyd McClung Jr. "God creates out of nothing - wonderful, you say; yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful. He makes saints out of sinners." A.G.Kierkegaard (1855) "God is a specialist when the anguish is deep. His ability to heal the soul is profound...but only to those who rely on His wounded Son will experience relief." - C.Swindoll "A storm puts a man on his guard and obliges him to exert his utmost efforts to avoid a shipwreck." - St. Jerome (c.420) "Our true value is not what we are worth in ourselves, but what we are worth to God, and that worth is bestowed upon us by the utterly gratuitous love of God." - William Temple (1944) "To regain her lost power the Church must see heaven opened and have a transforming vision of God." - AW Tozer "I pray God may open your eyes and let you see what hidden treasures he bestows on us in the trials from which the world thinks only to flee." - John of Avila (1569) "In solitude we discover that being is more important than having, and that we are worth more than the result of our efforts." - Henri Nouwen [Ps. 91:1-2] "If no one in the congregation is singing, it doesn't matter how good the worship band is." - J. Michael Walters "Honesty and wordiness are not the same thing. Before an awesome God there is also a time for quiet." - Buddy Owens (Eccl. 5.2)  "If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical." - Ed Stetzer "God can use our musical gifts to affect people emotionally, but these never mediate his presence. Only Jesus can do that." - Bob Kauflin "The church was not designed to be a reservoir, ever-receiving and retaining for itself God's spiritual blessings, but rather a conduit, conveying them on and out to others everywhere." - Robert H. Glover (1947). "I desire only Him and to be wholly His." - Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection (1691) "Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray." - George Buttrick (1980) "As they make music they will sing, All my fountains are in you." - Ps. 87.7 "Believing God's promises the Christian is taken through difficulties of every shape and size - and arrives safely." - Richard C. Halverson "If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God." - Henry Sloane Coffin "It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow." - Calvin Coolidge "God is forever seeking to speak Himself out to His creation...He is, by His nature  continuously articulate. He fills the world with His speaking voice." AW Tozer (1963) "Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise." - Charles Spurgeon (1892). "When I hear of Christ, an image of a man hanging on a cross takes form in my heart, just as the reflection of my face naturally appears in the water when I look into it." - Martin Luther "Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens." - Ps. 68.19 "If there is one characteristic more than others that contemporary public worship needs to recapture it is this awe before the surpassingly great and gracious God." - H.Coffin "God does not show us the whole way but only the next step. His promise is, "I will counsel you with my eye upon you." - Ingrid Trobisch (1926-) "It's an incredible mystery of God's love that the more you know how deeply you are loved, the more you will see how deeply your sisters and your brothers in the human family are loved." - Henri Nouwen "Grace alone which God supplies, strength unknown He will provide, Christ in us our Cornerstone, we will go forth in grace alone." - "Grace Alone," Brown/Nelson (c.1998) "When we worship together as a community of living Christians, we do not worship alone, we worship 'with all the company of heaven." - Marianne H. Micks "If we are going to worship in Spirit, we must develop a spirit of worship." - Michael Catt "Christ is the aperture through which the immensity and magnificence of God can be seen." - J.B. Phillips (1982) "Worship is first and foremost for His benefit, not ours, though it is marvelous to discover that in giving Him pleasure, we ourselves enter into what can become our richest and most wholesome experience in life." - Graham Kendrick "Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise." - Don McMinn "When I worship, I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart." - Lamar Boschman "As worship begins in holy expectancy, it ends in holy obedience. Holy obedience saves worship from becoming an opiate, an escape from the pressing needs of modern life." - Richard Foster "As in Creation, the Lord walks through the Holy Scriptures seeking man." - St. Ambrose (397) "God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart." - Izaak Walton (1683) "Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand." - St. Augustine of Hippo (430) "Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening." - 1Sam. 3:9 "Remember, God is not impressed with eloquence. He just wants honesty. And what he wants most from you in prayer is you." - Buddy Owens "He that commands faith, holiness and love, creates them by the power of his grace going along with His word, that He may have all the praise." - Matthew Henry "We too can worship with gladness when we lift our eyes above our momentary afflictions and focus on the innumerable blessings of eternity." - Roberts/Owens "let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water." - Heb. 10:22 "Consecration is handing God a blank sheet to fill in with your name signed at the bottom." - M.H. Miller "If you are looking for God and cannot find Him, stop where you are and worship Him as he will come and find you." - Buddy Owens "When we have nothing left but God, then we become aware that God is enough." - Agnes Maude Royden (1956). "It is implanted in the Christian soul, by the side of the running waters, under the sky of the theological virtues, amid the breaths of the seven gifts of the Spirit. It is natural for it to bear Christian fruit." - Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) "His authority on earth allows us to dare to go to all the nations. His authority in heaven gives us our only hope of success. And His presence with us leaves us no other choice."- John Stott "We worship God, not merely through song and ceremony, but through lives fully devoted to him as holy living sacrifices. What is God calling you to surrender and to worship Him right where you are?: - Branon Dempsey "When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn." - Brian McLaren "Worship is recognizing God for who He is; it is ascribing worth to Him; it is God's people telling Him about the worth they see in Him." - Don Weaver "God's promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine." - David Nicholas (1978) "Biblical worship finds God and will also find our neighbor." - Mark Roberton “Worship of the living and true God is essentially an engagement with him on the terms that he proposes and in the way that he alone makes possible.” - David Peterson (Engaging with God, pg. 20) “Inspire others to live their lives for the glory of God.” - Paul Baloche "Today I am one day nearer Home than ever before." - Vance Havner "Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling," - 2 Cor. 5.2 "Our willingness to be used as God's vessels can make His Father-heart a reality to our hurting world." - Floyd McClung Jr. "Worship changes the worshiper into the image of the One worshiped" - Jack Hayford "When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought joy to my soul." - Ps. 94:19. "When I said, "My foot is slipping," your love, O Lord, supported me." - Ps. 94:18 "Giving is the outward expression of love in the heart of every Christian. Our spiritual health depends on that expression of love, or else, the love itself will wither and die." - Clarence W. Hatch (1960) "The most valuable thing the Pslams do for me is to express that same delight in God which made David dance." - C.S. Lewis "True revelation of the fact of the Spirit's indwelling will revolutionize the life of any Christian." - Watchman Nee (1972) "Relinquishment of burdens and fears begins where adoration and worship of God become the occupation of the soul." - Francis J. Roberts "Complete honesty means speaking the truth while at the same time living by the truth of love's preeminence." - Mark D. Roberts, Dare To Be True "If we have been truthful in our words and deeds, then we will have earned the trust of our neighbors. They will be inclined to belive us when we speak of God's grace in Christ becuase we are people who tell and live the truth." - Mark D. Roberts "Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship." - N.T. Wright "If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings." - Brian D. McLaren "Church music needs to sound like the world and not vice versa." - Stan Endicott "Titles and positions in the church means less when we reach out to the world around us...we need to level the relational field between the world and the Church." - Derek Williams "I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." - Phil. 3:14 "Our loving Lord is not just present, but nearer than the thought can imagine - so near that a whisper can reach Him." - Amy Carmichael (1951) "The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God." - Marva Dawn "The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you." - Hilary of Poitiers (368) "To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange and foreign thing called the "program." This word has been borrowed from the stage and applied with sad wisdom to the type of public service which now passes for worship among us." (A. W. Tozer. The Pursuit of God. Christian Publications. 1948. pg. 9). "The shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional methods all testify that we, in this day, know God only imperfectly, and the peace of God scarcely at all." (A. W. Tozer. The Pursuit of God. Christian Publications. 1948. pg. 17). "The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshipping men. ... We have lost our spirit of worship and our ability to withdraw inwardly to meet God in adoring silence." (A. W. Tozer. The Knowledge of the Holy. The Attributes of God: Their Meaning in the Christian Life. New York: Harper and Row. 1961. pg. 6). "In many churches the art of worship has markedly declined. The so-called hour of worship has become a time when mind and emotions are anesthetized into neutral. Out of habit, church obligation, affection for the minister, peer pressure, family togetherness, patriotism, or community expectation, people sink into their usual pews." (Leslie Flynn, Worship: Together We Celebrate. Wheaton: Victor Books. 1983. pg. 11) "The Church has slipped into a philosophy of 'Christian humanism' that is flawed with self-love, self-esteem, self-fulfillment, and self-glory. There appears to be scant concern about worshipping our glorious God on His terms. So-called worship seems little more than some liturgy (high or low) equated with stained-glass windows, organ music, or emotion-filled songs and prayers. If the bulletin didn't say 'Worship Service,' maybe we wouldn't know what we were supposed to be doing." (MacArthur, John, Jr., The Ultimate Priority. Chicago: Moody Press. 1983. Preface, viii.). "If the bulletin didn't say 'Worship Service,' maybe we wouldn't know what we were supposed to be doing." - John MacArthur Christendom has initiated its own specially educated and ordained priesthood, whose presence is indispensable to 'administer the sacraments.' These men, robed in gorgeous vestments, from within a roped off 'sanctuary,' stand before a bloodless 'altar,' with a background of burning candles, crosses and smoking incense, and 'conduct the worship' for the laity. With the use of an elaborate prepared ritual, with stereotyped prayers, and responses from the audience, the whole service proceeds smoothly and with mechanical precision. It is a marvel of human invention and ingenuity, with an undoubted appeal to the esthetic; but a tragic and sorry substitute for the spiritual worship which our Lord declared that His Father sought from His redeemed children." (Gibbs, A.P., Worship. Kansas City: Walterick. n.d., pgs. 97.98.) "Whenever the method of worship becomes more important than the Person of worship, we have already prostituted our worship. There are entire congregations who worship praise and praise worship but who have not yet learned to praise and worship God in Jesus Christ." (Cornwall, Judson, Worship As Jesus Taught It. Tulsa: Victory House Publishers. 1987. pg. 70.) "Whenever the method of worship becomes more important than the Person of worship, we have already prostituted our worship." - Judson Cornwall "There are entire congregations who worship praise and praise worship but who have not yet learned to praise and worship God in Jesus Christ." - Judson Cornwall "We can expect God to provide everything necessary to make worship possible. We children of God must ever be dependent upon God, for we have no resources of our own. We are as impoverished in worship times as a baby unable to provide its own bottle at feeding time. God, the object of our worship, also becomes the inspiration of that worship. He has imparted His own Spirit into our hearts to energize that worship. All that is due Him comes from Him. His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me." (Cornwall, Judson, Worship As Jesus Taught It. Tulsa: Victory House Publishers. 1987. pg. 140.) "God, the object of our worship, also becomes the inspiration of that worship. He has imparted His own Spirit into our hearts to energize that worship. All that is due Him comes from Him." - Judson Cornwall "worship is recognizing God for who He is; it is ascribing worth to Him; it is God's people telling Him about the worth they see in Him. In fact, worship could very well be thought of as 'worth-ship.'" (Don Weaver, Worship: The Heart's Response to God. International School of Theology.) "The Church is the Church in her worship. Worship is not an optional extra, but is of the very life and essence of the Church. ...Man is never more truly man than when he worships God. He rises to all the heights of human dignity when he worships God, and all God's purpose in Creation and in Redemption are fulfilled in us as together in worship we are renewed in and through Christ, and in the name of Christ we glorify God." (James B. Torrance. "The Place of Jesus Christ in Worship", Church Service Society Annual. No. 40. May, 1970. pgs 41-62). "God's purpose in Creation and in Redemption are fulfilled in us as together in worship, we are renewed in and through Christ, and in the name of Christ we glorify God." - James B. Torrance "Mercy comes down from heaven to earth so that man by practicing it may resemble God." - Giambattista Giraldi (1573) "You alone are my strength my shield; to You alone may my spirit yield." - As The Deer by M.Nystrom (1984) "There is no lapse in His character or inconsistency in His nature. Our God is everything he says He is… for now and all eternity." - Matt Redman "My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation." - William E. Gladstone "God...He spoke a book and lives in his spoken words, constantly speaking his words and causing the power of them to persist across the years." - A.W.Tozer "Biblical worship finds God and will also find our neighbor." - Mark Roberton "To truly love someone is to see them as God intended." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky "Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul." - Martin Luther  it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us." - Martin Luther "Jesus departed from our sight that he might return to our heart. He departed, and behold, he is here." - St. Augustine of Hippo (430). "Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime." - Martin Luther "Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon thee? Alas, my treason, Jesus, hath undone thee! 'Twas I, Lord Jesus, I it was denied thee; I crucified thee."  - 'Ah, Holy Jesus' by Heermann/Bridges "He clothed himself with our lowliness in order to invest us with his grandeur." - Richard Wright (1885) "More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of." - Alfred Lord Tennyson (1892) "So I'm taking a stand—and I hope others will—to really live what I believe and embrace who I am in Jesus Christ." - Michael W. Smith "I believe we are called to just get with it. We are called to share our joy by serving the lost. The poor. The sick. The brokenhearted. The least of these." - Michael W. Smith In Christ, we are given the courage and strength to change the world."  - Michael W. Smith "We are to live in eager expectation of our heavenly inheritance." - Matt Redman "The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God." - Marva Dawn "the Christian life consists in what God says to us, not what we say about God." - Marva Dawn "God considers not the action, but the spirit of the action." - Peter Abeland (1142) "Why and how is God to be loved? God himself i the reason why: without limit is how." - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1153). "The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine." - Ross Parsley "Anyone can build a house: we need the Lord for the creation of a home." - John Henry Jowett (1923) "The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you." - Hilary of Poitiers (c.368) “No man gives anything acceptable to God until has has first given himself in love and sacrifice.” - A.W. Tozer “Listen as a beloved child of God, secure in His love, someone whom God loves intensely.” - Rory Noland “Worship is the believer’s response of all that they are – mind, emotions, will, body – to what God is and says and does.” - Warren Wiersbe "Biblical worship finds God and will also find our neighbor." - Mark Roberton “Worship of the living and true God is essentially an engagement with him on the terms that he proposes and in the way that he alone makes possible.” - David Peterson (Engaging with God, pg. 20) “Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose – and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin”. - William Temple’s (1881-1944) Readings in St. John’s Gospel. “I have been before God; and have given myself, all that I am and have to God, so that I am not in any respect my own.” - Jonathan Edwards (1758) “Hope comes as a surprise, at several levels at once.” - N.T. Wright “God always gives his very best to those who leave the choice with Him.” - James H. Taylor (1905). “There is no detour to holiness, Jesus came to the resurrection through the cross, not around it.” - Leighton Ford “Labor in the Lord is not in vain. Labor outside the Lord may well be in vain. We labor in the Lord when we labor using His enablement for His glory.” - A. W. Tozer “Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.”- Mother Teresa of Calcutta “He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.” - William Penn (1718). "The eyes of all look to You, and you give them their food at the proper time. You open your hand and satisfy the desires of every living thing." - Ps. 145:15-16 Prayer: "Control my thoughts and motivations and bring me into conformity with Your will." - Charles Stanley “Holiness is unwrought by the Holy Spirit, not because we have suffered, but because we have surrendered.” - Richard S. Taylor "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. And all these things shall be added unto you, Allelu alleluia!" - "Seek Ye First." - Karen Lafferty (c1972) "The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance." - C.S. Lewis "When God's people begin to praise and worship Him using the Biblical methods He gives, the Power of His presence comes among His people in an even greater measure." - Graham Truscott "But we're doing all this because God is worthy and we want to worship Him." - Tommy Walker "The first element in worship is adoration. The Hebrews expressed this by their posture and not alone my their word." - H.H. Rowley "For they prostrated themselves before God. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. They did not come with an easy familiarity into the presence of God, but were aware of his greatness and majesty, and came with a sense of privilege to His house." - H.H. Rowley "Worship in Ancient Israel" p. 257 "It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men." - C.S. Lewis "God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation." - Charles H. Spurgeon "When we worship together as a community of living Christians, we do not worship alone, we worship 'with all the company of heaven." - Marianne H. Micks "The time has come for a revival of public worship as the finest of the fine arts...While there is a call for strong preaching there is even a greater need for uplifting worship." - Andrew W. Blackwood

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