Reflections on Delight in Worship

“To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!”

- Revelation 5:13

“Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so.”

- D. A. Carson

“True worship comes from people who are deeply emotional and who love deep and sound doctrine.  Strong affections for God rooted in truth are the bone and marrow of biblical worship.”

- John Piper

“What ought to make worship delightful to us is not, in the first instance, its novelty or its aesthetic beauty, but its object: God himself is delightfully wonderful, and we learn to delight in him. … You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.”

- D. A. Carson

“God is spirit, and those who worship him must

worship him in spirit and in truth.”

- Jesus, John 4:24