Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. Mark 12:30. (NIV)
The kind of worship that pleases God has four characteristics:
3. God is pleased when our worship is thoughtful.
Try praising God without using the words praise, hallelujah, thanks or amen. Instead of saying, “We just want to praise you,” make a list of synonyms and use fresh words like admire, respect, value, revere, honor, and appreciate.
Also, be specific.
Paul devotes an entire chapter to this in 1Corinthians 14 and concludes, “Everything should be done in a fitting and orderly way.”
Related to this,
God insists that our worship services be understandable to unbelievers when they are present in our worship gatherings.
Being sensitive to unbelievers who visit your worship gatherings is a biblical command.
Amen.
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