DECISIVE PRAISE AND WORSHIP: Actualizing our Devotion to the Lord is a newly published source book 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. (An interest form for participation in a seminar is enclosed in the book – it is also available for download by clicking here).

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.

Can there be worship without submission? This is the primary question answered by this source book.
DECISIVE PRAISE AND WORSHIP explains that praising celebrates the awesome grace of God, that worshiping consummates our obedience to God, and that both decisively address the daily issues of our lives to achieve the peace and the joy of the Spirit. There are forty plus theme pieces that guide us to these outcomes.

Through a careful overview of the biblical texts, the book expounds on the understanding that Moses initiated praise and worship during Israel’s journey through the wilderness, that David expanded and perfected praise and worship during the glorious temple years, that the Lord Jesus perceived His servant mission more as personal worship than praise, that Paul expressed the Gospel in the genre and spirit of praise to God, and that John portrayed the coalescence of praise and worship in the eternal kingdom.

DECISIVE PRAISE AND WORSHIP seeks to instruct the reader and seminar participant in:

• Praise is the spiritual energy stream that unceasingly flows through God’s Word, celebrating the amazing grace and awesome glory of God in his saving works.
• Worship identifies the deliberative pools of obeisance that form along the stream from time to time, harnessing the lives of the faithful to accept God’s will in their lives.
• William Tyndale originally introduced the word “worship” into the English Bible, clarifying it in his Prologue for all generations as moments of submission to God.
• Praise and worship are not only celebratory and committed responses to God during sacred events, but are deliberative responses to the issues and events of our daily lives.
• Lyrical and instrumental music are vital and valid responses to God’s saving works, but serve not to generate faith and love in our hearts, but to renew what’s already there.

These are missing insights of praise and worship that this Mindheart seminar seeks to restore to private and corporate devotions of God’ people. We share them with those who hunger and thirst for the renewal of the churches and a return to praise and worship in the fullest biblical manner.

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