What is Worship?
"But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light." -- I Peter 2:9, NIV
"And you shall love the LORD Your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." -- Mark 12:30
"A time is coming and now is when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and Truth, for the Father is seeking such ones to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and Truth." -- John 4:23-24
"Praise the LORD! I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart, in the company of the upright, in the congregation." -- Psalm 111:1
"Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God." -- Colossians 3:16
Key Quotes:
"God made us to be worshipers. That was the purpose of God in bringing us into the world." A. W. Tozer
"The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying Him forever." Westminster shorter catechism, amended by John Piper
"God's work in the lives of His people . . . is centered in the context of the praise of His glory. In other words, God's worship is the divine goal of His redemptive work." Ron Allen
"Worship is the strategy by which we interrupt our preoccupation with ourselves and attend to the presence of God." Eugene Peterson
"Worship is the believer's response of all he is-in mind, emotions, will and body-to all that God is and says and does." Warren Wiersbe
"Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is." John Piper
More Information
A description of our worship services can be found in the Welcome section. There are a variety of opportunities to serve in Music/Worship Ministries.
If you would like to learn more about the music and worship ministries of Southern Gables, please read our Purpose Statement for Corporate Worship, a discussion of musical styles used in our worship, and/or the evaluation criteria we use for selecting worship music. Please contact Scott Naden at 303.986.1527 for more information.
