Solid Answers Series a worship service. You cannot worship God unless you have been redeemed. Remember, the church house is only a place for the church to meet. It is not the church. Each individual must meet the Lord. God’s children who truly worship their Lord will seek the salvation of the lost to tell them of the Saviour. We must be seeking the lost and going after the unsaved. We are to go out into the highways and hedges, but I do not believe that we are to make our church meetings worldly in order to bring in all the world. The world cannot worship God. Only those who have been redeemed can worship God. A.W. Tozer stated more than fifty years ago, Pastors and churches in our hectic times are harassed by the temptation to seek size at any cost and to secure by inflation what they cannot gain by legitimate growth. They are greedy for thrills, and since they dare no longer seek them in the theater, they demand to have them brought into the church. A church fed on excitement is no New Testament church at all. The desire for surface stimulation is a sure mark of the fallen nature, the very thing Christ died to deliver us from. Because we are not truly worshippers, we spend a lot of time in the churches just spinning our wheels, burning the gasoline, making a noise but not getting anywhere. Oh, brother or sister, God calls us to worship, but in many instances we are in entertainment, just running a poor second to the theaters.
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