Worship is a way of life. It’s not just about singing songs, meeting in a building or lifting up our hands, it’s about a complete submission of our entire beings in adoration of one who is worthy of our praise. Our society worships so many different things:  pop stars, actors, fashion, wealth and success, yet these are all earthly things that are here today and gone tomorrow. As Christians, the only one worthy of our praise is the God of all who gave His only Son that we could have a personal relationship with Him.

The ultimate goal of our worship is to bring glory to God and to exalt His name. However, over the course of Church history, a misunderstanding has developed as a result of the term ‘worship’ being so frequently used to describe times of congregational singing. At Grace we are trying to get back to the heart of worship and truly understand what this term means. Although we treasure the times we can come together to worship through the gift of music, our family gathering times are also times of worship through the Word, prayer, teaching, giving and fellowship. Then, when we step out of the Church building, our worship continues.

Romans 12:1 (NIV), says: 'Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God - this is your spiritual act of worship.' As Christians, we are called to live lives devoted to the Lord and to honoring His name. When we lay aside our pride, selfish ambitions and sinful selves and chose to follow the Lord’s lead in all aspects of our lives, we are living as true worshippers.

Wherever the Lord has placed us: as parents, in the workplace, as students, as grandparents, as spouses or as friends, we can choose to worship God in our everyday lives. When the focus of our lives is to grow in the knowledge of Him that in turn we might use the teachings of Jesus to impact our world for His glory, we are in its truest sense worshipping. For in Luke 22:36-39, Jesus makes clear to us that the greatest commandment in Scripture is to love the Lord with all our heart, soul and mind and the second is to love our neighbor as ourselves. May we continue to become the worshippers He created us to be.  We invite you to join us at Grace as we seek to make our entire lives an act of worship unto the Lord!