Corporate Worship - 8

What is worship?
“The proper or improper response to a god, many gods, or the one true God.”

What is true, spiritual worship?
“The proper and reverent response to the one true God because of who He is.”

“Everything we do is worship.”

CORPORATE WORSHIP - 8

We believe that singing the praises of God,1 is a holy ordinance of Christ, and not a part of natural religion, or a moral duty only; but that it is brought under divine institution, it being enjoined on the churches of Christ to sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; and that the whole church in their public assemblies (as well as private Christians) ought to sing God's praises according to the best light they have received.2 Moreover, it was practised in the great representative church by our Lord Jesus Christ with His disciples,3 after He had instituted and celebrated the sacred ordinance of His holy supper, as a commemorative token of redeeming love.

—1742 Philadelphia Baptist Confession, ch.23

1. Acts 16:25; Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16
2. Hebrews 2:12; James 5:13
3. Matthew 26:30