What is worship?

My church’s worship team has been watching a series of DVD’s and using the workbook for LaMar Boschman’s “Pulse” series. The idea of the series has been to look at what worship is, why we do it, what it means, what God wants and thinks of our worship, what it should look like, and other such questions.

Worship is one of those things that every Christian just does. For most of us, analyzing how and why we worship has never crossed our minds. And when it first did, I felt like it might be wrong to do so. After all, it’s supposed to be about the heart.

Of course, that’s simply wrong. It’s not just about the heart. It’s about the heart, mind, spirit, soul, intellect, emotions, body, and everything else we have. The question is, what are we willing to give to God … of what will we simply let go and let God have?

I’m not, at this moment, going to go into tremendous detail on this subject. I am, though, going to work through the studies of the book again, and I might post some thoughts on each section as I do so.

We all know that singing is worship. And, for the most part, we get that praying and other “church things” are worship. How much do we get that everything we do can be worship, and once we get that concept, how many of us actually do everything we do as an act of worship?

I suppose that that’s enough to consider for the moment.