Defining Worship

Because worship is multifaceted, no single definition completely captures it in full. The following attempts at definition express the richness and diversity of worship and show that a key to renewal is the awareness of worship as both a divine action and a human response. That nothing else be done in [worship] than that our dear Lord Himself talk to us through His Holy Word and that we, in turn, talk to Him in prayer and songs of praise. Martin Luther Worship in all its grades and kinds is the response of the creature to the eternal. Evelyn Underhill [Worship] sums up and confirms ever afresh the process of saving history which has reached its culminating point in the intervention of Christ in human history, and through this summing up and ever-repeated confirmation Christ pursues His saving work by the operation of the Holy Spirit. Jean-Jacques von Allmen [Worship is] God acting to give His life to man and to bring men to partake of that life. Paul W. Hoon A Bible-cente…