Related commentaries – Worship

Ministry in the Synagogues – Matthew 4:18 – 4:25

Wiersbe: True Biblical Worship

True biblical worship so satisfies our total personality that we don’t have to shop around for man-made substitutes. William Temple made this clear in his masterful definition of worship: For worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose-and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin. (The Integrity Crisis by Warren W. Wiersbe, Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1991, p. 119).