We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.
How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship
The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved by who God is and what he has done for you.
To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.
Our need for worth is so powerful that whatever we base our identity and value on we essentially 'deify.' We will look to it with all the passion and intensity of worship and devotion, even if we think ourselves as highly irreligious.
Everyone worships something. The only choice you get is what to worship.
Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.
Jesus was much more interested in the quality of the people's response to him than in the quantity of the crowd.
It is because Jesus Christ experienced cosmic thirst on the cross that you and I can have our spiritual thirst satisfied. It is because he died that we can be born again. And he did it gladly. Seeing what he did and why he did it will turn our hearts away from the things that enslave us and toward him in worship. That is the gospel, and it is the same for skeptics, believers, insiders, outcasts, and everyone in between.
To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.
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