What is the Highest Form of Worship?

[sunlover1]

What does He want??

 

[DiligentlySeekingGod]

To worship Him in spirit and in truth. It's a condition of the heart.

 

[sunlover1]

Thanks for answering Diligently seeking God.
Amen.
I'm wondering what the highest form of worship is though,
EX, in the RCC, the highest form of worship is the body of Christ...

 

[Dorothea]

The Divine Liturgy, which was commanded by God, not by man. It is our understanding this is how He commanded us to worship Him....it's the best way to get the closest in union with Him through the Divine Liturgy with the centerpiece of the Eucharist.

 

[Ortho_Cat]

What does He want??

he wants you!

 

[DiligentlySeekingGod]

Romans 12:1-2 says, “I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable, or well pleasing and perfect.”

I believe true worship is God-centered worship, no matter what form it takes. Jesus said that true worshipers will worship God in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). Therefore, I don't believe worship is limited to one particular act. I believe we can worship God through praying, reading His Word, singing, participating in communion, or serving other people. But if our heart is not right with God then no matter what we do as an act of worship would be in vain. Jesus said, "‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. They worship Me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules'" (Matthew 15:8-9). 1 Samuel 15:22 says in effect, "To obey is better than sacrifice,..." If our heart is not right with God then we will not be obedient to Him and His Word. As I said previously, it is a condition of the heart. Anything we do as an act of worship will be rubbish and worthless if our heart is not right with God.

 

[Rick Otto]

To worship Him in spirit and in truth. It's a condition of the heart.

 

[Brak]

What is the Highest Form of Worship?

Obedience.

 

[DiligentlySeekingGod]

Obedience.

Amen.

 

[BrendanMark]

(Comm)Union with God.

The Principle of deification, Divinity by nature—the imparticipable Origin whence the deified derive their deification, Beatitude itself, transcendent over all things and supremely thearchic—is inaccessible to all sense perception and to every mind, to every incorporeal or corporeal being. It is only when one or another of these beings goes out from itself and acquires a superior state that it is deified. For it is only when it is hypostatically united to a mind or body that we believe the Divinity to have become visible, even though such union transcends the proper nature of mind and body. Only those beings united to it are deified by the total presence of the Anointer; they have received an energy identical to that of the deifying Essence, and possessing it in absolute entirety, they reveal it through themselves. For as the Apostle says, “In Christ the fullness of Divinity dwells bodily” (Col. 2:9).
St Gregory Palamas – Triads in defence of the Holy Hesychasts [in “Other Suns” quoted from Not of This World, World Wisdom 2003 Cutsinger, James S. ed p228]

 

[Ortho_Cat]

(Comm)Union with God.

The Principle of deification, Divinity by nature—the imparticipable Origin whence the deified derive their deification, Beatitude itself, transcendent over all things and supremely thearchic—is inaccessible to all sense perception and to every mind, to every incorporeal or corporeal being. It is only when one or another of these beings goes out from itself and acquires a superior state that it is deified. For it is only when it is hypostatically united to a mind or body that we believe the Divinity to have become visible, even though such union transcends the proper nature of mind and body. Only those beings united to it are deified by the total presence of the Anointer; they have received an energy identical to that of the deifying Essence, and possessing it in absolute entirety, they reveal it through themselves. For as the Apostle says, “In Christ the fullness of Divinity dwells bodily” (Col. 2:9).
St Gregory Palamas – Triads in defence of the Holy Hesychasts [in “Other Suns” quoted from Not of This World, World Wisdom 2003 Cutsinger, James S. ed p228]

 

[OpenDoor]

To worship Him in spirit and in truth.

yep

 

[laconicstudent]

What does He want??

Mu.

 

[bbbbbbb]

Jesus said the Father seeks worshippers to worship Him in spirit and truth, so that will be my answer, as well. Thank you for asking.

 

[CryptoLutheran]

I would agree that the Eucharist is the heart of our worship, where God and man meet together in fellowship and unity to celebrate the core of our faith: God became man, crucified and risen and the whole Body of Christ as one in the presence of heaven and earth.

The Eucharist is most sacred, God with us, us with God; the foretaste of the heavenly banquet and world to come.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[Tangible]

Worship is God reaching down to give gifts to his dear children.

 

[ivebeenshown]

LOVE

 

[NaLuvena]

Obedience.

Double amen!!!

 

[tturt]

Spending time in our prayer closet (Matt 6:6, [FONT=&quot]PSALM 46:10[/FONT]) and just meditate on Yahweh, be in awe of Him (such as I Chron 29:10-13, Psa 145), of Christ Jesus' sacrifice, and exalt His name sometimes with singing (Psa 100:2).

Worshiping Him Spirit to spirit.

 

[Zeek]

Romans 12:1-2 says, “I urge you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God which is your spiritual service of worship. And do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable, or well pleasing and perfect.”

I believe true worship is God-centered worship, no matter what form it takes. Jesus said that true worshipers will worship God in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). Therefore, I don't believe worship is limited to one particular act. I believe we can worship God through praying, reading His Word, singing, participating in communion, or serving other people. But if our heart is not right with God then no matter what we do as an act of worship would be in vain. Jesus said, "‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. They worship Me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules'" (Matthew 15:8-9). 1 Samuel 15:22 says in effect, "To obey is better than sacrifice,..." If our heart is not right with God then we will not be obedient to Him and His Word. As I said previously, it is a condition of the heart. Anything we do as an act of worship will be rubbish and worthless if our heart is not right with God.

In Jewish thought, many believe the 'highest form of worship' is studying/reading the Word of G-d, and I have come to believe there is great merit in this understanding, and it is actually part of my everyday experience.

This is not a mere accumulation of biblical knowledge, or studying for the need to understand, but it is coming reverentially to Scripture, submitting yourself to it and determining to do what is revealed because in it we find the heart of G-d, the ways of G-d, the wisdom of G-d ...it is in the working out of Scripture in our lives that we understand and gain knowledge...rather than hearing, giving intellectual assent and never really owning or experiencing what has been revealed...In many ways it is described as the difference between a Greek approach and Jewish approach...one focuses on knowledge and understanding, the other on obedience and action...although I believe there can be a fusion of the two.