WORSHIP AND WITNESS
WEEK 1
Great Commission Worship Is Formational
Making pottery has been a respected profession and hobby
for thousands of years, and it continues to be an important part of many cultures around the world.
While the most basic tool for any maker of good pottery is the hand, there are a variety of implements and materials that come into play. Fire is the agent by which clay and other materials are changed into earthenware, stoneware, or porcelain, which means a kiln is a necessary device. People also use wheels, turntables, knives, rollers, and more. Of course, the most important tool is the mind
of the potter himself—his creativity, skill, patience, and attention to detail.
Perhaps what’s most appealing about making pottery is the dual nature of the craft. The process is both artistic and practical. It starts with raw materials that
are seemingly mundane—clay, dirt, minerals, and more—and ends with the
formation of something practical and often beautiful.
It’s no wonder, then, that the Bible frequently uses pottery to illustrate the spiritual formation of both individuals and communities. After all, we as human beings are raw and filthy in our sin, but we’re also created in the image of God and possess the potential for beauty.
In His wisdom God provides many tools and methods for shaping us into His image and making us useful for His purposes. As we’ll see this week, the proper worship of God is an effective tool for tapping our potential and forming us into useful vessels that reflect His glory.
DAY 1
Great Commission Worship
What’s more important in the life of a Christian—worship or evangelism? That’s a tough question.
On one hand, much of what we do as Christians every week is considered worship. We pray to God throughout the day. We listen to worship CDs. We sing hymns and songs of praise at church. More importantly, the Bible repeatedly commands us to worship God, using words like “Praise the L ORD, all nations!” (Ps. 117:1).
On the other hand, evangelism is an unquestionably vital part of the Christian life. Just the idea of outreach feels weighty and important because eternity is at stake for billions of people around the world. That’s why we learn the Roman Road and invite our neighbors to church. That’s why we go on mission trips and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.
So is it worship or evangelism? Which one is our greatest calling that deserves our most fervent effort?
How do you answer the previous question? Why?
If you’re having trouble deciding whether worship or evangelism represents our primary purpose as believers, you’re actually on the right track. That’s because worship and evangelism aren’t separate elements—or at least they shouldn’t be. In reality, they’re unified expressions of obedience to God, both of which deserve our full attention as we seek to follow Jesus and help others follow Him as well.
Misconceptions
The reason we often perceive a separation between worship and evangelism is that many Christians (and many churches) possess a false view of each experience. There’s a disconnect between the biblical view of worship and evangelism and the way we often carry out those activities.
For example, many Christians’ idea of worship is limited to an emotional high on Sunday mornings, yet during the week they ignore Jesus’ mandate to go and make disciples of all nations (see Matt. 28:19). At the same time, many Christians feel pressure to try and “bring people to Jesus.” However, without grounding their efforts in genuine worship, they win converts but fail to make disciples who are true worshipers.
During what seasons of life have you had passionate, meaningful experiences of worshiping God?
During what seasons of life have you been motivated and successful in sharing your faith?
The truth is, modern believers (and modern churches) aren’t worshiping well, nor are we doing a good job of making disciples. We’ve created a false dichotomy between those elements, and both have suffered.
The purpose of this study is to offer a biblical understanding of worship and evangelism as united expressions of obedience to God. Throughout the next six weeks we’ll also shed light on how God intended His followers to express both callings as we seek to multiply the kingdom of God.
A New Definition
Both evangelism and worship are expressions of a life totally committed to Jesus Christ. As such, they allow us to live out our primary purpose as followers of Jesus. That purpose is defined well by the first line of the Westminster Shorter Confession: “Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever.” 1
Read Romans 11:33-36 and Ephesians 3:14-21. What does it mean to glorify God?
When have you recently concentrated on bringing glory to God? What was the result?
The purpose of a believer’s life is to glorify God. We worship so that God can be eternally exalted among the nations. We bring people to Christ for the same reason. When we live surrendered, obedient lives that seek God’s glory, we offer open invitations for others to become worshipers of our great God. Evangelism and worship are therefore uniquely related. Evangelism ignites a holistic lifestyle of worship, and worship of the one true God leads to evangelism.
Jesus issued two commands that define our calling to worship and evangelism. The first is the Great Commission:
Jesus came near and said to them, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
Matthew 28:18-20
This was Jesus’ final command before ascending to heaven, and it assured His followers of His power and His presence. He instructed them to go and make disciples, baptizing and teaching them. In doing so, they would bring glory to God by leading more and more people to worship Him.
How does evangelism bring glory to God?
How have you seen evangelism result in God’s being glorified?
Jesus’ also instructed His disciples in what is now called the Great Commandment:
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the greatest and most important command. The second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” All the Law and the Prophets depend on these two commands.
Matthew 22:37-40
Jesus’ words express the heart of both worship and evangelism. He called us to glorify God with unyielding allegiance, but our worship isn’t complete unless we also love our neighbor. If we fall in love with Christ and seek to glorify His name, we’ll also love others and lead them to worship with us.
Biblical worship, therefore, is a passionate response of devotion and obedience to God, and it results in active participation in the Great Commission. Neither evangelism nor worship is an isolated religious activity; both combine to form a lifestyle that seeks to glorify God by joining Him on mission every day.
In the weeks ahead we’ll learn more about how we can bring glory to God by becoming Great Commission worshipers.
Summarize the connection between worship and evangelism.
How does this connection bring glory to God?
In your own words, what does it mean to live as a Great Commission worshiper?
If you’re feeling some pressure to figure out how worship and evangelism should fit together in your Christian walk, take a deep breath. The good news is that God wants to use His followers to fulfill His purposes. In fact, He’s already in the process of perfecting you for the task of Great Commission worship.
Through this study you’ll simply align yourself with what God has already been doing in your life. As you do so, you’ll discover more and more the power and privilege involved in Great Commission worship.
Today’s Evangelism Expression
Each day’s lesson will end with an Evangelism Expression and a Worship Expression, which are designed to help you live out what you’re learning about Great Commission worship. You’ll need a separate journal or notebook to complete these activities each day.
Spend a few minutes contemplating your life before you experienced the saving power of Jesus Christ. Record your answers to the following questions.
• • What were your primary influences and motivations during that time period?
• • What were your biggest dreams?
• • What were your deepest fears?
• • List three words that describe your life before you became a Christian.
Today’s Worship Expression
Reread the Great Commission (Matt. 28:18-20) and the Great Commandment (Matt. 22:37-40). As you pray throughout the day, ask God to grant you a passionate desire to obey these commands and to help others do the same.
DAY 2
The God We Worship
Worship and evangelism are important practices for churches and individual Christians. We’ve always understood that. What’s revolutionary is the idea that worship and evangelism are pieces of the same whole rather than competing activities in our lives. That’s the essence of Great Commission worship, and that’s what we’ll explore throughout this study.
As we dig deeper into these concepts, we’ll focus on several outcomes of Great Commission worship—what happens in the lives of believers when biblical worship joins forces with biblical evangelism. There are five of these outcomes: Great Commission worship is formational, transformational, relational, missional, and reproducible.
We’ll use the remainder of this week’s lessons to explore the first outcome: the role Great Commission worship plays in our spiritual formation. Worship and evangelism aren’t static experiences. We don’t engage them and then walk away unaffected, like taking a dip in a pool.
Rather, Great Commission worship is formational. It sculpts us and shapes us into something new. The more we glorify God through worship and evangelism, the more we’re conformed to His image. This happens every time we feast on God’s Word, worship the God of the Word, apply His Word to our lives, share the gospel with a friend, and experience God’s mercies new every morning.
How has your spiritual growth been impacted by worship?
How has your spiritual growth been impacted by evangelism?
To understand how Great Commission worship forms us more and more closely into the image of God, we need to highlight a few things about His nature.
Two Qualities
One thing we need to come to grips with is the fact that God is transcendent. This means He’s above all created things. He’s the ruler of the universe and beyond our limited experience as human beings. He transcends what we can comprehend.
Read the following verses and record how they contribute to your understanding of God’s transcendence.
Isaiah 40:21-23
Isaiah 55:8-9
Psalm 99:1-3
God is worthy of our worship. He’s great and marvelous, magnificent and holy, sufficient and self-sustaining, beyond our ability to understand or explain, and the Creator of all things. The list can go on and on. Recognizing God’s transcendence makes us aware of our lowly human status in comparison, and we naturally respond with praise.
Amazingly, even though God is transcendent, He’s also immanent. That means He’s involved in all parts of the universe, including every facet of our lives. Although God is high above us, He wants to draw near His children in a close, personal relationship. God actively takes a role in our everyday experiences. He loves us, nurtures us, and provides for us.
Read the following verses and record how they contribute to your understanding of God’s immanence.
Jeremiah 29:11-13
Ezekiel 34:11-15
Matthew 7:7-11
God is our Father, Shepherd, friend, companion, hope, and help. Again, the list can go on and on. Both transcendence and immanence describe our relationship with our holy, all-knowing, and all-loving God. Both qualities lead us to worship, and both qualities inspire us to proclaim God’s nature to those who have yet to experience Him firsthand.
A Two-Way Street
An important principle we need to understand about God is that our relationship with Him is a two-way street. God doesn’t just receive our worship, store it away, and at the end of the day record the number of times we pray and exalt Him. God isn’t selfish. He doesn’t need us to brag on Him. He isn’t a self-centered deity who demands memorized, habitual, or obligatory prayers.
Rather, God always responds to our worship of Him. We praise Him because we recognize and adore Him as the transcendent, immanent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent God who loves and cares for us. We share our testimony with others for the same reasons. And when we do so, God responds by nurturing, developing, and cultivating our relationship with Him.
What kinds of experiences cause you to feel closer to God? Why?
Remember that we glorify God not only by praising Him but also by obeying Him in evangelism and other types of ministry. When we worship God in faith with love, devotion, obedience, and service, He responds to us by giving us His grace, love, devotion, companionship, and care. As we spend time with Him in worship, He increases our desire to worship. As He increases that desire, we worship more deeply and sincerely. In other words, God uses our worship to shape us and form us into His likeness. Great Commission worship is formational.
A Case Study
The life of the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah is a great example of formational worship. God commissioned Jeremiah to proclaim to the ungrateful, ungodly, self-consumed nation of Judah that because of its sins, it would reap grief, destruction, heartache, and devastation.
The only child of a temple priest, Jeremiah was molded by godly influences. He had a genuine love for God and hated idol worship. His strong messages exhibited disdain for the dishonest policies of the monarchs, making him unpopular with the evil kings and their followers. On more than one occasion he ran for his life. Even so, Jeremiah never lost his sense of calling. His commitment to the worship of Jehovah shaped a simple, honest, and consistent trust in God. Jeremiah’s worship shaped his relationship with God in three specific ways.
1. God shaped Jeremiah’s language.
The L ORD reached out His hand,
touched my mouth, and told me:
I have now filled your mouth with My words.
See, I have appointed you today
over nations and kingdoms
to uproot and tear down
to destroy and demolish,
to build and plant.
Jeremiah 1:9-10
How have you experienced God’s direction when you shared your faith or talked with others about Him?
2. GOD SHAPED JEREMIAH’S LIFE. God selected Jeremiah to devote his life to a specific task:
I chose you before I formed you in the womb;
I set you apart before you were born.
I appointed you a prophet to the nations.
Jeremiah 1:5
Jeremiah’s worship prompted him to live a life of obedience. His faith drove him to a life of obedient commitment and service to the One he loved most. His faithfulness energized his courage to always do what was right. God used what seemed to be unbearable circumstances to shape Jeremiah’s character, integrity, and faith. In response, Jeremiah’s worship of the Lord deepened.
3. GOD SHAPED JEREMIAH’S MINISTRY. At the moment Jeremiah accepted God’s plan for his life, God began to mold the young prophet into a man of courage. Jeremiah lived and experienced formational worship, and God gave him the ability to carry out the tasks before him. God promised him:
Today, I am the One who has made you a fortified city, an iron pillar, and bronze walls against the whole land—against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the population. They will fight against you but never prevail over you, since I am with you to rescue you.
Jeremiah 1:18-19
Each time Jeremiah received a word from God, his understanding about God grew, and his worship of God deepened. In the same way, the more he shared God’s words with the people who needed to hear them, the more the process shaped his life. That’s the power of a life formed by Great Commission worship.
How have you seen God use your experiences with worship and evangelism to shape you for ministry?
Today’s Evangelism Expression
Spend a few minutes contemplating the events and experiences that preceded your salvation. Record your answers to the following questions.
• • When did you begin to realize that your lifestyle wasn’t working—that you were unhappy and unsatisfied?
• • How did you attempt to find happiness and satisfaction? What happened?
• • Which people served as God’s representatives in your life? What did they say?
Today’s Worship Expression
Take several moments throughout the day to express your praise for God’s transcendent nature. Speak to Him about the marvelous things He’s done, both in the world and in your personal experiences. In those same moments also praise God for His immanence and involvement in your life. Thank Him for the ways He nurtures and sustains your relationship with Him.
DAY 3
Jesus: The Focus of Worship
For Christians, the Christmas season is a time of great joy as we celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ. At the same time, we also experience a mixture of sadness and frustration when we see much of our culture celebrate “the holidays” in ways that exclude any mention of Jesus. We feel the tragedy of seeing Christ taken out of Christmas.
In what other areas does our culture attempt to restrict or remove the influence of Jesus Christ and His Word?
Just as it’s a mistake to omit Jesus as the reason for the Christmas season, it’s also damaging to forget that He’s the central figure involved in our worship and evangelism. Indeed, biblical worship and evangelism must be centered on Jesus Christ.
We’re not talking about an abstract idea of Jesus or a vague recognition that He’s important. Rather, Great Commission worship is all about the concrete reality of Jesus. He’s the Messiah who’s worthy of all honor and praise, and He’s the living Savior to whom all our evangelistic energy must point.
What happens when churches and Christians attempt to worship and evangelize without clearly pointing to the Person of Jesus?
To continue exploring Great Commission worship on firm footing, let’s spend some time solidifying our understanding of and appreciation for Jesus Christ.
Eternal God and Son
When it comes to capturing the full measure of Jesus’ nature and ministry on earth, few passages of Scripture are more helpful than John 1.
Read John 1:1-18. What do you enjoy most about these verses? Why?
What images stand out to you most in these verses? What do those images communicate about Jesus?
The most important thing we need to understand about Jesus is that He’s God. He’s the eternal Creator and Sustainer of the universe. As John wrote in verse 1:
The Word was with God,
and the Word was God.
Therefore, when we pray, sing songs, and glorify God through obedient worship, we’re glorifying Jesus Christ. He’s the true Light of the world who deserves all praise. In fact, we were expressly created for the purpose of worshiping Him.
In the same way, evangelism doesn’t involve talking with people about concepts or vague ideas of the divine. Instead, it’s an opportunity to glorify Jesus by sharing our personal experiences with Him—the Creator of the universe—and by inviting others to encounter that Creator for themselves.
How does worshiping Jesus help our efforts to share our faith with others?
How does sharing our faith enhance our efforts to praise and honor Jesus?
Suffering Servant
When we understand that Jesus is God and the Creator of the universe, we should be properly shocked at the idea that He desires a personal relationship with us, His creations. And we should be flabbergasted by these words from John 1:14:
The Word became flesh
and took up residence among us.
We observed His glory,
the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father,
full of grace and truth.
The message of the gospel is that human beings were lost and broken because of our sin. We had no way to reestablish our connection with God—the connection we’d severed through our rebellion—and yet God’s love for us was unchanged. His desire for a relationship with us inspired Him to step out of eternal glory and into the mess and muck of our sinful world.
That’s Jesus. He became one of us in order to save all of us once and for all.
Read Philippians 2:5-11. What’s shocking about these verses? Why?
How do these verses inspire both evangelism and worship by Jesus’ followers?
Not only did Jesus Christ manifest Himself in our world as our Savior, but He also demonstrated the extremity of His love by allowing Himself to be killed on a cross for our sakes. He died, and yet He conquered death by rising from the grave on the third day. In doing so, He made a way for us to partake in His resurrection and experience eternal life with Him.
Head of the Church
Jesus is no longer physically manifested on earth, yet He hasn’t abandoned us. He continues to work on our behalf through His church.
What’s your reaction when you hear the word church? Why?
What have you liked best about your experiences with churches in recent years? What’s made you most disappointed about those experiences?
What we call the church isn’t a building. The church consists of all of the men, women, and children who’ve relinquished control of their lives to Jesus Christ. The church is made up of human beings, yet the entire structure is supported and given life by Jesus.
The apostle Paul helped us understand these concepts by painting a picture of the church as an enormous body that lives and works in the world. He pictured Christ as the Head who directs and rules that body to accomplish what He wants.
Read Romans 12:4-5 and Ephesians 1:22-23. In your own words, summarize the relationship between Jesus and the church.
How does the church help us glorify Jesus through worship and evangelism?
Jesus loved us enough to create us in His image (see Gen. 1:26) and to develop a relationship with us. He valued that relationship so much that He not only forgives our sin but also sacrificed Himself to save us from our sin and rebellion. Even today He works through His church to accomplish all we were created for.
Our Ultimate Goal
This week we’re focusing on the fact that genuine experiences with Great Commission worship are formational: they sculpt and shape us into something new. Here’s the best news: the something new we’re being shaped into is actually Jesus. As we worship God and share our faith, we’re molded more and more into the image of Christ.
Look at the apostle Paul’s words in Galatians 3:27: “As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ like a garment.” When we experience salvation through Jesus, we’re given His righteousness “like a garment” to cover our sinfulness. This event is called justification.
But justification is only the beginning. As we begin obeying God through worship, evangelism, and ministry, we start the process of being conformed to His image. Through that process, called sanctification, our very essence is shaped into something new and wonderful that’s more and more like Jesus. That’s God’s plan for us: “Those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers” (Rom. 8:29).
What’s your reaction to the previous statements? Why?
In what ways are you more like Jesus today than when you first encountered Him?
Great Commission worship is the proper response to who Jesus is and everything He’s done on our behalf. No other message is more important for us to share, and no other person is more worthy of our praise.
Today’s Evangelism Expression
Think about your first encounters with Jesus.
• • When did you first hear the story of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection?
How did you respond?
• • When did you first experience Jesus on a personal level? What happened,
and how did you respond?
• • Why did you decide to give up control of your life to follow Jesus?
Today’s Worship Expression
Go through your personal music collection or browse through songs online until you find a song that expresses your feelings about Jesus and what He’s done for you. Commit to sing that song throughout the day (move it to the top of your playlist, for example) as a way of recognizing and reflecting on your gratitude.
DAY 4
Worship Is Shaped by Scripture
The Jewish psychiatrist Viktor Frankl was arrested and imprisoned by the Nazis in World War II. Assigned to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, he was stripped of everything he owned, including his life’s work—a book he’d been writing on life’s meaning. Frankl had hidden the treasured manuscript in the lining of his coat, but the Nazis forced everyone in the camp to give up their clothes, depriving him of his only intellectual and emotional comfort. He began asking himself whether life was ultimately void of any meaning. He lost hope.
In time, however, the Nazis handed Frankl another set of clothing. “Instead of the many pages of my manuscript,” he later wrote, “I found in the pocket of the newly acquired coat a single page torn out of a Hebrew prayer book.” Written on that single page were words from the Shema Yisrael, the Jewish confession of faith: “Listen, Israel: The L ORD our God, the L ORD is One. Love the L ORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength” (Deut. 6:4-5).
This was no coincidence. Through this Scripture God was teaching Frankl how to live his commitment to God. He was instilling in Frankl’s heart a reason to survive. His purpose in life—to glorify God—hadn’t changed. 2
Take a moment to identify instances in which words—Bible verses, song lyrics, quotations, literature, and so on—have influenced your life in a major way. Name three examples.
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How have your experiences with the Bible changed from the time you first encountered it until today?
We’ve discussed the fact that Great Commission worship is formational for those who experience it. Let’s focus on the role God’s Word plays in that process.
Scripture Is Formational
At any given time there are literally millions of books in print that are circulating throughout the world. Most of us are lucky if we can find time to read dozens of those books each year—and very lucky if more than a handful of those books impact us in a meaningful way.
The Bible is different. It’s set apart from all other published material because it stands as the very Word of God that He gave to guide us through life. The Bible isn’t passive, as all other books are. We don’t read it so much as we experience its power. That’s why the author of Hebrews wrote the following.
The word of God is living and effective and sharper than any double-edged sword, penetrating as far as the separation of soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It is able to judge the ideas and thoughts of the heart. No creature is hidden from Him, but all things are naked and exposed to the eyes of Him to whom we must give an account.
Hebrews 4:12-13
What does verse 12 mean when it says God’s Word is “living and effective”?
When have you been penetrated or cut by the power of God’s Word? What happened?
The use of the word sword in verse 12 is interesting. It implies that the Bible functions much like a surgeon’s scalpel when a doctor carefully locates the place for surgery, makes an incision, penetrates deep into the flesh, and skillfully cuts out infection or diseased tissue. In the same way, God’s Word is a tool that clears away rough edges and shapes someone into the image of Christ—much like the tools used to shape and form pottery.
In other words, the Word of God is formational. Like a scalpel in the hand of a skilled doctor, God’s Word shapes and develops our worship. As we spend time with Him in His Word, our worship is shaped by what we read. The Holy Spirit enables us to worship more deeply. And in the process our lives, relationships, ministries, and evangelism are shaped by that worship.
Scripture Shapes Our Doctrine
A primary reason God’s Word is formational is that it shapes our core beliefs about the most important elements of life. It shapes our theology, for example. Theology is the study of God, so it’s hard to imagine a more important subject. What we believe about God influences what we believe about everything else.
Scripture shapes our beliefs about God. In addition to our personal experiences with Him, what we know of God is based on what He’s revealed about Himself through His Word. Therefore, as we spend time worshiping God and studying His truth, we learn more about Him. He uses His Word to form our belief system—our doctrine. And as we understand doctrine, God speaks to our hearts about how we should apply biblical truth to daily living.
How does this process play out in our routine of worship and evangelism? Let’s say you learn from the Bible that God wants all people from all nations to worship Him and that salvation is available to all people groups in the world. Based on that knowledge, you conclude that all people need to be worshipers of the Most High God. And based on your belief, you develop a personal strategy for telling people how to become disciples and worshipers of God. Finally, you obey what God has shown you by sharing the gospel at every opportunity He provides.
What are some other truths you’ve learned about God from the Bible? Record three.
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What are some implications of those truths for your everyday life?
A Case Study
Josiah’s story from the Book of 2 Kings powerfully illustrates the formational quality of God’s Word. Although Josiah was anointed king of Judah at the tender age of 8, he recognized that his father and many other prior kings had led the nation of Judah in rebellion against God.
Josiah did the best he could to turn the kingdom away from wickedness, but he lacked guidance. He didn’t know how to properly glorify God. Then something changed as his servants worked to repair the temple: “Shaphan the court secretary told the king, ‘Hilkiah the priest has given me a book,’ and Shaphan read it in the presence of the king” (2 Kings 22:10).
The book Shaphan read was the law God had given to Moses—probably the Book of Deuteronomy or perhaps the entire Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament). In any case Josiah was exposed to God’s Word for the first time in his young life, and it changed him. He was instantly aware of the many ways the people of Judah had rebelled against God. He was so stricken with grief that he tore his clothes and pleaded for God’s forgiveness. He commanded the people to tear down idols and false gods in the nation. For the first time in decades, he led the people in observing the feast of Passover, as God’s Word commanded.
Read 2 Kings 22:8-13. When have you been convicted of wrongdoing by something you read in God’s Word? What happened next?
Read 2 Kings 22:14-20. How was Josiah’s life changed because of his response to God’s Word?
What changes would you like God to make in you as you interact with His Word?
There’s a vital cause-and-effect relationship at play between our exposure to God’s Word and our formation as His followers. And this relationship is essential to the process of Great Commission worship.
Our study of God’s Word shapes our worship and what we believe. The more the Holy Spirit changes our belief system, the more we want to know the Bible. The more time we spend reading the Bible, the more we want to know about God. The more we understand about God, the more we want to worship. This process goes on and on. In the end this cycle plays an important role in our growth as Great Commission worshipers and followers of God.
Today’s Evangelism Expression
Take a moment to record some of the main ways your life has changed since you relinquished control and began to follow