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Worship Disorder: Discover God’s Blueprint For Worship
Many churches seem to struggle with a worship DIS-order these days. We often focus on getting the best technology and musicians money can afford or seeking the emotional experience, but is this what God wants for His church? There is a common misconception that the Bible does not give specific and clear instruction to the church regarding our church worship services, so we try our hardest to put together services that honor God and yet appeal to the people. Unfortunately, raised hands and emotional responses are not necessarily the best measure of true worship and there just might be a better way - God's way!
God gave man the instructions and skill to build His church on earth in the book of Exodus... called the tabernacle. As we walk through God's church, we see how He embedded a great deal of symbolism that points us forward to His Son, Jesus Christ. Do you want to know what the church looks like from God's perspective? Worship (dis)Order will take you-step by-step through the tabernacle and you will get a glimpse of the order of worship that God planned! In God's tabernacle, we experience His holiness, mercy, forgiveness, and, ultimately, His restoration. We see our repentance, forgiveness, baptism and communion. When we worship from God's point of view, He is glorified and we are changed-but without the often-used gimmicks and hype that draw people to themselves rather than God.
God gave man the instructions and skill to build His church on earth in the book of Exodus... called the tabernacle. As we walk through God's church, we see how He embedded a great deal of symbolism that points us forward to His Son, Jesus Christ. Do you want to know what the church looks like from God's perspective? Worship (dis)Order will take you-step by-step through the tabernacle and you will get a glimpse of the order of worship that God planned! In God's tabernacle, we experience His holiness, mercy, forgiveness, and, ultimately, His restoration. We see our repentance, forgiveness, baptism and communion. When we worship from God's point of view, He is glorified and we are changed-but without the often-used gimmicks and hype that draw people to themselves rather than God.
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Published January 14, 2020
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March 2, 2020
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Worship Disorder by Tracy Meola is a book that will present a paradigm shift to many Christians, especially those who view the Old Testament primarily as historical, but not particularly relevant as to how we are taught to order our Christian worship. She had this reader captured early in her introduction when she was so grieved when at a Christmas Eve worship service the pastor had the congregation do “the wave.” This action clearly had nothing to do with the message of Christmas, and she thought that this could not be what God desires from his church.
The author focuses on the parable taught in Hebrews chapters eight and nine where the worship of God after Jesus's ascension is to be to grasp what the significance of the Tabernacle and eventually the Temple was. She unmasks countless images of the foreshadowing of Jesus reveled in the design and function of many of the tabernacle elements use for Jewish worship. She also shows that the Tabernacle is also a revelation about what some of Heaven will be like for those so blessed to be with God forever. The record of God's design for worship was not revealed first in the book of Acts. It started with the Garden of Eden, Abraham, Moses, and was strongly reaffirmed by the writer of the book of Hebrews.
She presents a powerful explanation of the animal sacrifices and how the worshiper was to confess and repent from their sins before they had to personally kill the sacrifice that they brought to the Tabernacle and Temple. While the priests had specific duties in the worship there, it also required a full, personal engagement of the one who came to offer their sacrifice.
At the end of each chapter the author offers a redressing opportunity for personalized engagement with specific Scripture readings that are congruent with the chapter contents. She also concludes with a powerful prayer that can be offered bringing home the lessons taught and calling the reader to live in accordance with the truth revealed in the Scriptures examined.
This is an incredible book for pastors and other worship leaders in churches. For those not in a leadership role, this book will challenge you to examine what you do together in your worshiping community when you gather. A positive impact will come when worshipers see what is taught in the New Testament about the realities shown in the Old Testament and how closely they art intrinsically interwoven.
I strongly recommend this scholarly, but not overly intellectual, treatise on how God desires to have us worship him. You will be both surprised and enriched by the author's profound work.
Worship Disorder by Tracy Meola is a book that will present a paradigm shift to many Christians, especially those who view the Old Testament primarily as historical, but not particularly relevant as to how we are taught to order our Christian worship. She had this reader captured early in her introduction when she was so grieved when at a Christmas Eve worship service the pastor had the congregation do “the wave.” This action clearly had nothing to do with the message of Christmas, and she thought that this could not be what God desires from his church.
The author focuses on the parable taught in Hebrews chapters eight and nine where the worship of God after Jesus's ascension is to be to grasp what the significance of the Tabernacle and eventually the Temple was. She unmasks countless images of the foreshadowing of Jesus reveled in the design and function of many of the tabernacle elements use for Jewish worship. She also shows that the Tabernacle is also a revelation about what some of Heaven will be like for those so blessed to be with God forever. The record of God's design for worship was not revealed first in the book of Acts. It started with the Garden of Eden, Abraham, Moses, and was strongly reaffirmed by the writer of the book of Hebrews.
She presents a powerful explanation of the animal sacrifices and how the worshiper was to confess and repent from their sins before they had to personally kill the sacrifice that they brought to the Tabernacle and Temple. While the priests had specific duties in the worship there, it also required a full, personal engagement of the one who came to offer their sacrifice.
At the end of each chapter the author offers a redressing opportunity for personalized engagement with specific Scripture readings that are congruent with the chapter contents. She also concludes with a powerful prayer that can be offered bringing home the lessons taught and calling the reader to live in accordance with the truth revealed in the Scriptures examined.
This is an incredible book for pastors and other worship leaders in churches. For those not in a leadership role, this book will challenge you to examine what you do together in your worshiping community when you gather. A positive impact will come when worshipers see what is taught in the New Testament about the realities shown in the Old Testament and how closely they art intrinsically interwoven.
I strongly recommend this scholarly, but not overly intellectual, treatise on how God desires to have us worship him. You will be both surprised and enriched by the author's profound work.
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