Cover of the Action Guide

Truth You Should Know About Worship

by John Hubley, Th.D.
an Action Guide Sponsored by the Mindheart Foundation and the Worship Leaders Network

from the guide:

Worship today comes in many fascinating forms and styles. The reason is that we restless creatures like truth in many forms and styles. Diversity adds color and class to our creative instincts. However, what happens when we take the living God into our search for truth? I mean when we embrace the triune God of Scripture in our quest? What difference does that make in our search for insight into the worship of God?

The purpose of this course is to winnow truth from popular fancy so that as God’s ministers we pursue biblical worship devoted to the triune God. First, we consider truth about worship ingrained in the Bible; then show the impact of the triune God upon worship; however, not worship alone, but worship with justice. We purposely seek to present a theology for pastors and worship leaders interested in biblical theodicy*,  not theater.

This study seeks to inform worship leaders that the God they venerate is triune in being and action; is known, loved and served as Father, Son and Holy Spirit; and involved in our governance and redemption. Biblical worship, creating an obeisant relationship to God that swells into participation with Christ in his saving works, is unveiled in Scripture, and solely in Scripture.

DECISIVE PRAISE AND WORSHIP: Actualizing our Devotion to the Lord is a resource workbook designed to accompany MindHeart seminars on praise and worship. The book is comprehensive enough to stand alone for the reader, but is most useful in the context of an accompanying seminar by the MindHeart team.

DECISIVE PRAISE AND WORSHIP: Actualizing our Devotion to the Lord goes beyond preoccupation with forms and styles of worship, and gets decisively to the essence of biblical worship as actualizing our “facedown” submission to the Lord.

Dedicated church members, worship leaders and professors of worship in colleges and seminaries will be spiritually enriched by this readable and scholarly study of the biblical texts about authentic praise and worship from Genesis to Revelation.
Gordon R. Lewis, Senior Professor of Theology and Philosophy, Denver Seminary

OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK
The biblical practices of praise and worship perpetually flow and placidly pool like the waters of a living stream through the kingdom landscape in the Word of God. Scripture exhorts the faithful to perceive praise to the Lord as a mighty and sparkling stream flowing continuously through their souls. They focus their minds and hearts on the steadfast passing of God’s grace and mercy through their daily lives, whether their course runs spunky and steady, or painfully rumbles through the rapids.

The Bible instructs the faithful to consider wading in the quiet pools of worship to renew and restate their waning homage to their God. They find their way back to the steady flow of divine grace and mercy through the placid pools of submission to their Lord. These common metaphors assist us to picture in our imaginations the distinctive makeup of biblical praise and worship.

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