Priorities and preferences in worship

In too many churches, I think, worship is just the prelude to the sermon…the implication being that we’ll get past all the preliminaries and we’ll get to the meat of the service, which is the sermon.

What I want people to understand is this:  That opening stuff?  That’s just as important.  In fact, it’s communicating the Gospel just as the sermon does.

When we rightly understand that, we’ll have priorities that are Biblical as well as our own personal preferences to guide us in terms of what Biblical worship should be.

• Bryan Chappell, President of Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis.

The promo video for his book, Christ-Centered Worship (Baker) is below.

View on YouTube here.

HT: ReformWorship.com