Worship Can Be

Love

Honour

Praise

Regard

Respect

Devotion

Adoration

Obedience

Reverence

Exaltation

Veneration

Civil deference

Transcendent wonder

Not mere acts of duty

An attitude expressed

Love responding to love

Honouring and loving God

An act, not an experience

Adoring or venerating God

The launching pad for life

Paying divine honors to God

Unselfish Christian service

The act of truly loving God

Adoring contemplation of God

Performing acts of adoration

Performing religious service

The grand theme of the Bible

Admiration becoming adoration

Not just an emotional exercise

Putting God first in our lives

An act of obedience of the heart

Our first or foundational ministry

Our response to what we value most

Responding to the greatness of God

Love on its knees before the beloved

The thank you that can't be silenced

Honouring or showing reverence for God

A direct conversation between us and God

Giving God the best that He has given us

Meditation, prayer and study of the Word

The reverent love and devotion accorded God

Showing religious devotion or reverence for

Reverence with supreme respect and veneration

Attributing reverent honour and homage to God

Not a feeling we wait for, but a choice we make

A response of the heart built on truth about God

A lifestyle of relating to God in a particular way

Living a life yielded to God in every possible way

The foundation for our true servanthood towards God

Regarding with ardent or adoring esteem or devotion

Not part of the Christian life, it is the Christian life

An endeavor to bring to God that which costs us something

Extreme devotion or intense love or admiration of any kind

About the posture of our heart, not the posture of our body

What we do with our lives, not just what we do with our lips

Not an event to attend and watch, it’s a lifestyle to be lived

Not an external activity precipitated by the right environment

Regarding with great or extravagant respect, honor, or devotion

A way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of His worth

Obedience to God for no other reason than that we delight in God

Our response to the overtures of love from the heart of the Father

The highest form of honor and respect that we can show towards God

An inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God

An inward reverence, the bowing down of the soul in the presence of God

Forgetting about what's wrong with us and remembering what's right with God

The most momentous, most urgent, most glorious action that can take place in human life

To prostrate ourselves, to bow down, to fall face down, to pay homage and to pay respect

Not simply a feeling that is experienced - it must also involve understanding and the mind

Not our only ministry, but the one that all other spheres of ministry should be built upon

A real encounter at appointed times with the one true God in Christ through the Holy Spirit

The specific act of ascribing to God the glory, majesty, honor, and worthiness which are His

Living our life individually and corporately as continuous living sacrifices to the glory of God

An act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship

An intelligent and loving response to the revelation of God, because it is the adoration of His name

A paradox of the religious life - it is simultaneously the greatest duty and the greatest pleasure of faith

A response that requires the very core of who we are, to love the Lord for who He is, not just for what He does

To draw near to God with an undivided heart, coming in full agreement without hiding anything or disregarding His will

The reverence and homage paid to God in religious exercises, consisting in adoration, confession, prayer, thanksgiving and the like

God's way of giving us an opportunity to shift our focus from our own concerns, problems, and circumstances to the way things are in heaven

Our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has done, expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live

The submission of all our nature to God, 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 - all 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