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The New Testament Order of Worship  

 

         The New Testament Church Conduct of Worship

Because of traditions .i.e. hand me down ideals, there have been teachings handed down unto us that is not biblical and of New Testament warranty, which we have inherited, suffered, believed, accepted and assumed apart of us without biblical foundation.

THE NEW TESTAMENT ORDER OF WORSHIP

 

The Order of Worship

 

The Traditional Church, Sunday “worship service” is characterized by passivity amount the laity with the Pastor or a select person or group of leaders doing nearly all the ministry.

Church meetings were participatory and interactive every member had a function and contribution to make. (1 Cor. 12:4-27; 14:26; Eph. 4:15-16; Rom. 12:3-8; 1 Pet. 4:10, 11; Heb. 10:23-25; Rom. 12:15; 1 Cor. 12:26).

The Traditional Church, Sunday morning “worship service” is characterized by a rigid and inflexible order of service.

The Church of God of the New Testament was characterized by informality, flexibility, and spontaneity.  (Acts 20:7; 1 Cor. 14:26-31).

The Traditional Church, goal of meeting is worship, listening to a sermon or evangelism.

The goal of the meeting was mutual edification.  (1 Cor 14:3-5,12,17,26; Eph. 4:11,12,16; Heb. 10:24,25).

When we follow traditions we;

  • Make the commandments of God of none effect.
  • Worship God in Vain
  • Leave people in darkness

 

God would have us to depart from the traditions of men Matthew 15:13; Jeremiah 1:9,10

 

It hurts to depart from traditions, it is not easy.  But it was traditions that Israel substituted for the word of God that made them go into apostasy and this is the condition Jesus found them in when he came on the scene.

 

There were things, practices, and ceremonial rites they were not willing to let go of.  It was these things or Jesus.  So out went Jesus and in came those things.

 

Paul said these things were suffered until the time of Reformation.  In other words, there was need of a reform and up rooting and tearing down of the general trend of ideal and traditions and a trip back to the blessed old bible.

 

Traditions will kill the authority of the word & spirit, produce wickedness and bondage, people will see the truth as it is, but because of bondage and man rule they have no power to rise above man made ideal and teachings.  Traditions are the enemies of truth.  Revelation 13:3-11

 

Traditions make the commandments of God of none effect Matthew 15:6.  And Jesus said “every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, (every tradition, false ideal, corrupt doctrine and practice) shall be rooted up.  Jeremiah 1:9, 10.  Jesus said also, let them alone they be (are) blind leaders of the blind, (blind people), both shall fall into the ditch (hell).

People for the most part today do not know how to worship God.  Also their worship services are characterize by rituals, formalities, ceremonies and rites, and other foreign ideals contrary to the New Testament pattern, but there is a New Testament pattern for worship.  There is a proper conduct for worship.  We don’t worship God according to the dictates of our conscious but according to the dictates of God’s word.  Because men are so corrupted in their minds that today we have a conglomerate form of false worship.  But the true worshippers of God shall worship him in the Spirit and in truth.

True inner worship is of the heart, and spirit, and outer worship is by acts and conduct, both most coincide with God’s word.

Worship means; religious reverence and homage, especially the act of paying, divine honor to God. 

The Early Church assembled for worship. Acts 11:26 Hebrews 10:23-25:

 

  • What we worship. (God) John 4:20-24
    • Our object of worship “To pay divine homage to God”
  • Where to worship
    • “The early church worshipped in their houses”
    • Our homes Romans 16:3-5; Col. 4:15; Philemon 2; 1 Corinthians 16:19
    • Hire House Acts 28:30,31
    • Upper room Acts 1:12-15
    • Upper Chamber Acts 20:7,8
    • In the temple Acts 2:46
    • House to House Acts 2:26

 

  • When to worship
    • First day of the week Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthian 16:1,2
    • Daily Acts 2:46,47

 

  • How to worship
    • By preaching
    • By exhorting
    • Teaching (the doctrine of Christ & the apostles
    • Testifying
    • Praying
    • Fellowshipping
    • Singing and Rejoicing
    • Reading the scriptures
    • Observing the New Testament Ordinances
      • Baptism
      • Feet Washing
      • Lord’s Supper
      • Giving
    • Orderly (Decent and In Order)