Worship precedes service. This basic Biblical principle was one I was taught early on in life. But the priority of worship goes even further. Our worship of God, both corporate and individual, must precede:
Culture
Relationships
Politics
The news
Theological precision
Your job
Entertainment
Online debate
And I could go on. Your communion with, and adoration of, the one true God has to come before everything else. And when it doesn’t, your life inevitably becomes disordered. Not only does your view of God become warped, so does your view of and treatment of your neighbor, Christian or otherwise.
This, in fact, is the testimony of Romans 1: “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened” (vs. 21).
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