First call to worship.
Read <Ge 1:1-3> In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
1) God is One.
2) God is Spirit.
3) And of course, God is Eternal.
4) And God is infinite.
5) God self-exist and self-sustain.
6) God is the Creator.
7) And God is life.
8) God is Sovereign.
The fall has corrupted worship.
1) Corrupted our knowledge of God.
2) Corrupted our knowledge of Self.
3) Corrupted our singing and praising of God.
* Different views on singing hymns in church between Martin Luther, Zwingli, John Calvin.
* Can hymns pointing to God express the human struggle and emotions?
How should we worship and lead worship?
<1 Sam 16:14-16,23>: 14 Now, the Lord’s Spirit had left Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him. 15 Saul’s officials told him, “An evil spirit from God is tormenting you. 16 Your Majesty, why don’t you command us to look for a man who can play the lyre well? When the evil spirit from God comes to you, he’ll strum a tune, and you’ll feel better”…23 Whenever God’s spirit came to Saul, David took the lyre and strummed a tune. Saul got relief from his terror and felt better, and the evil spirit left him.
* Music brings therapeutic and healing effect?
* What about secular music?
<Isa 6:1-8>: 1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. 3 And they were calling to one another: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.” 4 At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. 5 “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.” 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar. 7 With it he touched my mouth and said, “See, this has touched your lips; your guilt is taken away and your sin atoned for.” 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?”
1) The way we worship.
2) During Worship: Know and confess our sins
3) Result of Worship: Sent forth
