Worship
From Neoredemptive
The giving of honor, attention, devotion and resource to someone or something which takes the role of functional primacy over or within us.
Biblically, worship is to be reserved for our creator, and any failure or misdirection of the worship due Him is called idolatry. Martin Luther suggested (and many have agreed) that all sin is ultimately reducible to idolatry -- the exaltation of someone or something to a place of greater practical honor or esteem than God.
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Hebrew
Greek
... John and the gospels make frequent use of the word προσκυνέω (proskuneo) -- literally, "kiss toward" -- to speak of our right response to Jesus Christ, toward God, and as the characteristic activity of Heaven (per Revelation) ...
... Paul does not speak extensively of our proskuneo, but does speak clearly about our λατρεια (latreia) in Romans 9 (often translated along the lines of "spiritual act of worship") ...
Theology as Doxology
We agree with Martin Luther, that all sin is a result of breaking the first two commandments. Many of our crises, from pastoral counseling to church government to besetting sin to public moral collapse, are simply expressions of idolatry -- of having set the wrong deity in the place of honor, devotion, and sacrifice, of having given our bodies as an act of worship pleasing to someone or something which does not rightly belong in the place of God.
Worshipful Work
Work and serve as unto the Lord Jesus Christ.
Worshipful Celebration
Feasting should be worshipful. Giving should be worshipful. Sex should be worshipful.
Worshipful Living
Worship Music
See worship music.
Worship and Sexuality
The Old Testament makes regular use of sexual metaphor to describe the spiritual health of Israel. Marriage, adultery, and harlotry (whoredom) are frequent images for God's faithfulness, our unfaithfulness, and our idolatry.
...Sex practiced/embraced/enjoyed for the glory of God...
