MAXIMIZING RELATIONSHIP SKILLS

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WHAT ON EARTH IS THE CHURCH SUPPOSED TO BE DOING?
Celebrating Christ
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WHAT ON EARTH IS THE CHURCH SUPPOSED TO BE DOING?
Celebrating ChristWorship Forming a community of
believersFellowship Building peopleMinistry Conn
ecting with the world.Evangelism
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WHAT ON EARTH IS THE CHURCH SUPPOSED TO BE DOING?
Celebrating ChristWorship Forming a community of
believersFellowship Building peopleMinistry Conn
ecting with the world.Evangelism
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
John 419-20 Sir, the woman said, I can see
that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on
this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place
where we must worship is in Jerusalem.
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John 421-24 Jesus declared, Believe me, woman,
a time is coming when you will worship the Father
neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You
Samaritans worship what you do not know we
worship what we do know, for salvation is from
the Jews. Yet a time is coming and has now come
when the true worshipers will worship the Father
in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of
worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and
His worshipers must worship in spirit and in
truth.
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
Psalm 1397-8 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up
to the heavens, you are there if I make my bed
in the depths, you are there.
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
Matthew 1820 For where two or three come
together in my name, there am I with them.
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
Psalm 421-3 As the deer pants for streams of
water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul
thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I
go and meet with God? My tears have been my food
day and night, while men say to me all day long,
Where is your God?
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
Psalm 424 These things I remember as I pour out
my soul how I used to go with the multitude,
leading the procession to the house of God, with
shouts of joy and thanksgiving among the festive
throng.
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
Psalm 429-10 I say to God my Rock, Why have you
forgotten me? Why must I go about mourning,
oppressed by the enemy? My bones suffer mortal
agony as my foes taunt me, saying to me all day
long, Where is your God? Why are you downcast, O
my soul? Why so disturbed within me?
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
Psalm 4211 Put your hope in God, for I will yet
praise him, my Savior and my God.
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
JOY
Psalm 9711-12 Light is shed upon the righteous
and joy on the upright in heart. Rejoice in the
Lord, you who are righteous, and praise his holy
name.
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
STRENGTH
Psalm 461-4 God is our refuge and strength, an
ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will
not fear, though the earth give way and the
mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though
its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake
with their surging
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
STRENGTH
There is a river whose streams make glad the
city of God, the holy place where the Most High
dwells.
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
PEACE
Psalm 48 I will lie down and sleep in peace, for
you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety. Psalm
2911 The Lord gives strength to his people the
Lord blesses his people with peace.
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
COURAGE
Psalm 271-3 The Lord is my light and my
salvation--whom shall I fear? The Lord is the
stronghold of my life - of whom shall I be
afraid? When evil men advance against me to
devour my flesh, when my enemies and my foes
attack me, they will stumble and fall
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
COURAGE
Psalm 271-3 Though an army besiege me, my heart
will not fear though war break out against me,
even then will I be confident.
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
PROTECTION
Psalm 3728 For the Lord loves the just and will
not forsake his faithful ones. They will be
protected forever, but the offspring of the
wicked will be cut off.
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
Psalm 275-6 For in the day of trouble he will
keep me safe in his dwelling he will hide me in
the shelter of his tabernacle and set me high
upon a rock. Then my head will be exalted above
the enemies who surround me at his tabernacle
will I sacrifice with shouts of joy I will sing
and make music to the Lord.
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WORSHIP REFLECTS OUR DESIRE TO BE IN GODS
PRESENCE!
Psalm 223 Thou art holy, O thou that
inhabitestthe praises of Israel.
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WORSHIP ALLOWS US TO DECLARE THE PRAISES OF GOD!
1 Peter 24-5 As you come to him, the Living
Stone - rejected by men but chosen by God and
precious to him - you also, like living stones,
are being built into a spiritual house to be a
holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices
acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
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WORSHIP ALLOWS US TO DECLARE THE PRAISES OF GOD!
1 Peter 29 But you are a chosen people, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to
God, that you may declare the praises of him who
called you out of darkness into his wonderful
light.
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WORSHIP ALLOWS US TO DECLARE THE PRAISES OF GOD!
Psalm 961-4a Sing to the Lord a new song sing
to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord,
praise his name proclaim his salvation day after
day. Declare his glory among the nations, his
marvelous deeds among all peoples. For great is
the Lord and most worthy of praise.
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WORSHIP ALLOWS US TO DECLARE THE PRAISES OF GOD!
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WORSHIP ALLOWS US TO DECLARE THE PRAISES OF GOD!
1 Peter 211-12 Dear friends, I urge you, as
aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain
from sinful desires, which war against your soul.
Live such good lives among the pagans that,
though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may
see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he
visits us.
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WORSHIP ALLOWS US TO DECLARE THE PRAISES OF GOD!
1 Peter 211-12 Dear friends, I urge you, as
aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain
from sinful desires, which war against your soul.
Live such good lives among the pagans that,
though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may
see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he
visits us.
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WORSHIP ALLOWS US TO DECLARE THE PRAISES OF GOD!
Revelation 410,11 The twenty-four elders fall
down before him who sits on the throne, and
worship him who lives forever and ever. They lay
their crowns before the throne and say You are
worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and
honor and power, for you created all things, and
by your will they were created and have their
being.
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WORSHIP ALLOWS US TO DECLARE THE PRAISES OF GOD!
Psalm 1381-2 I will praise you, O Lord, with all
my heart before the 'gods' I will sing your
praise. I will bow down toward your holy temple
and will praise your name for your love and your
faithfulness, for you have exalted above all
things your name and your word.
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WORSHIP ALLOWS US TO DECLARE THE PRAISES OF GOD!
Romans 121 Because of God's great mercy to
usoffer yourselves as a living sacrifice to God,
dedicated to His service and pleasing to Him.
This is true worship that you should offer.
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WORSHIP ALLOWS US TO DECLARE THE PRAISES OF GOD!
Mark 1230 And you must love the Lord your God
with all your heart, all your soul, all your
mind, and all your strength.
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WORSHIP ALLOWS US TO DECLARE THE PRAISES OF GOD!
Mark 1230 And you must love the Lord your God
with all your heart, all your soul, all your
mind, and all your strength.
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WORSHIP ALLOWS US TO DECLARE THE PRAISES OF GOD!
Mark 1230 And you must love the Lord your God
with all your heart, all your soul, all your
mind, and all your strength.
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WORSHIP ALLOWS US TO DECLARE THE PRAISES OF GOD!
Mark 1230 And you must love the Lord your God
with all your heart, all your soul, all your
mind, and all your strength.
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WORSHIP FOCUSES OUR ATTENTION ON THE POWER OF GOD!
Revelation 411 You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power, for you
created all things, and by your will they were
created and have their being.
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WORSHIP FOCUSES OUR ATTENTION ON THE POWER OF GOD!
Revelation 512-13 Worthy is the Lamb, who was
slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and
strength and honor and glory and praise!" Then I
heard every creature in heaven and on earth and
under the earth and on the sea, and all that is
in them, singing To him who sits on the throne
and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and
power, forever and ever!
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WORSHIP FOCUSES OUR ATTENTION ON THE POWER OF GOD!
James 46 But he gives us more grace. That is why
Scripture says "God opposes the proud but gives
grace to the humble."
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WORSHIP FOCUSES OUR ATTENTION ON THE POWER OF GOD!
Matthew 53 Happy are those who know their need
for God, for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.
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WORSHIP FOCUSES OUR ATTENTION ON THE POWER OF GOD!
Psalm 1391-3 O Lord, you have searched me and
you know me. You know when I sit and when I
rise you perceive my thoughts from afar. You
discern my going out and my lying down you are
familiar with all my ways.
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WORSHIP FOCUSES OUR ATTENTION ON THE POWER OF GOD!
Romans 87 Focusing on the self is the opposite
of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in
self ignores God, ends up thinking more about
self than God. That person ignores who God is and
what he is doing.
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Romans 122 Don't become so well-adjusted to
your culture that you fit into it without even
thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God.
You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily
recognize what he wants from you, and quickly
respond to it. Unlike the culture around you,
always dragging you down to its level of
immaturity, God brings the best out of you,
develops well-formed maturity in you.
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Why do we clap our hands? Psalm 471 O clap
your hands, all ye people shout unto God with
the voice of triumph.
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Why do we lift our hands? Psalm 1342 Lift up
your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.
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Why do we have audible praise unto God? Psalm
341-3 I will bless the Lord at all times his
praise shall continually be in my mouth. My
soul shall make her boast in the Lord the
humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O
magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his
name together.
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Why is there occasional shouting in ourworship
service? Psalm 1329 Let thy priests be clothed
with righteousness and let thy saints shout
for joy.
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Why do we sing with a variety of
styles? Ephesians 518-19 And be not drunk with
wine, wherein is excess but be filled with the
Spirit Speaking to yourselves in psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making
melody in your heart to the Lord.
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Why do we use musical instruments? Psalm
1503-5 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet
praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise
him with the timbrel and dance praise him with
stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon
the loud cymbals praise him upon the high
sounding cymbals.
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Why worship at all? John 423-24 But the hour
cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers
shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth
for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God
is a Spirit and they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth.
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