How Then Shall We Worship? Quotes

“How then shall we worship? To honor God as God, we must worship Him as He, and He alone, decrees. No church dare replace the chancel with a stage. Stages are built for performance; chancels are constructed for worship. We must work, and work hard, to remove the shadows we have placed over the glory of God, that God’s people may be renewed by basking in His divine splendor and brilliant glory. Nothing else will do.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“Prayer is not just a tangential or peripheral part of corporate worship. In ancient Israel, the primary function of worship was the offering of prayer. And so it should be in our churches today. Our sanctuaries should be houses of prayer.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“God, when He outlined His pattern for worship in the Old Testament, also mandated visible signs, tangible acts of drama that are not isolated from the Word or contrary to the Word but are married to the Word.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“The symbol not only points beyond itself, but is itself part of the reality, so that the symbol escalates the intensity of the sign to another level.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“The Bible is His written Word, but it is mute. So, God used visual signs as part of His communication with His people. Along with His written Word, He gave a multitude of signs, symbols, external gestures, and rites. The purpose, just as in human communication, was to reinforce that Word.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“Jesus did not call the temple a house of sacrifices or a house of preaching. He called it a house of prayer. The temple’s chief designation was that it was to be the focal point of the nation and of the people for prayer.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“Our modern worship needs the philosophy of the second glance, an ongoing attempt to make sure that all that we do in worship gatherings is to God’s glory, to His honor, and according to His will. May”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“We have made our worship services more secular than sacred, more common than uncommon, more profane than holy.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“Pleasing God is at the heart of worship. Therefore, our worship must be informed at every point by the Word of God as we seek God’s own instructions for worship that is pleasing to Him.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, whims, or marketing strategies. Pleasing”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“What did the Messiah need to do in order to be the Lamb of God, in order to make an atonement for the people of Israel? We know that Jesus came to die for our sins, but why did He not simply come down from heaven on Good Friday, go to the cross, arise on Easter, and go back to heaven? It was because Christ’s work on the cross was only half of His mission. In order for Jesus to die for our sins, it was first necessary for Him to fulfill the role that Adam failed to fulfill. He had to fulfill all righteousness.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, whims, or marketing strategies. Pleasing God is at the heart of worship. Therefore, our worship must be informed at every point by the Word of God as we seek God’s own instructions for worship that is pleasing to Him.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“The death of Christ covers our sin, but the life of Christ provides the merit and the righteousness that we must have in order to enter into heaven. So, Jesus’s life is as important for us as His death. He lived to fulfill all of the law of God.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“this: “If God Himself were to design worship, what would it look like?”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“pleasing to God. Churches that practice infant baptism believe that it is their duty to baptize infants, and in failing to do so they would be derelict in a responsibility. Those that refrain from infant”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“Arrogant worship is an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms. Yet we see it throughout Scripture. The gospel was given to Adam and Eve. As redemptive history unfolded, the people of Israel continued to recite the promise and to demonstrate it with their liturgy, their signs, their sacraments, and their cultic worship. But the judgment of the prophets that came upon the house of Israel was this: “Your worship has become idololatria. You are not putting your faith in God; you are putting it in Baal, in the temple, in the rituals you are doing, in your heritage, in your biology. You are trusting in everything else but God.”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today

“Shepherds were not even allowed to give testimony in court because they were considered utterly untrustworthy, the dregs of society. In other words, the shepherd was seen as just a bit above a slave. He was a lowly servant. That is why it was so significant that the first announcement of the birth of Jesus was given to shepherds in the fields outside Bethlehem. Those shepherds had the lowest status in the culture of that time. Things were much the same in the time of the first family, and that is significant to what occurred in Genesis”
― R.C. Sproul, How Then Shall We Worship?: Biblical Principles to Guide Us Today