What I’ve Learned About Worship
Hawaiian Island Ministries
Honolulu, HI
March 25, 2011
Dr. Tony Campolo
Hawaiian Island Ministries
Honolulu, HI
1:30 PM
March 25, 2011
- Story about the woman that asked Tony “Do you remember me?”
- Matthew 13:52
- Tony tells about voluntary chapel at EasternUniversity
- Story about when Tony and is wife went to Wales and the old Welsh hymn “Guide Me Oh Thou Great Jehovah”
- We must use both the old and the new
- Jesus says “I’m looking for people who will worship in Spirit and in truth”
- Every society and every culture creates God in it’s own image
- Emile Durkheim’s stages of worship- if people worship their own traits and values, they worship themselves
- Romans 1- They take the image of the incorruptible God, liken it to corruptible man…and they end up worshipping the creature instead of the creator
- George Bernard Shaw said “God created us in His image and we decided to repay the favor”
- Story about the greatest sermon ever preached- The Sermon on the Mount
- Was Jesus only kidding?
- Retirement is not in the cards for a Christian
- Do you have enough faith to live out Jesus’ radical lifestyle?
- Jesus said “Blessed are the merciful”
- There are over 2000 verses of scripture that calls us to respond to the poor
- The Jesus of scripture calls us to a radical lifestyle
- The Jesus of culture allows us to be comfortable with our middle class lifestyle
- Are you worshipping the Biblical Jesus?
- A lot of people are worshipping the wrong Jesus
- Isaiah 6- Isaiah goes to the temple to worship
- You fall short of what Jesus expects you to be. True worship calls you to repentance
- Isaiah 58- God is not pleased with the worship of the people
- Being saved isn’t just believing doctrines, but surrendering to Jesus
- Story about Fred Craddock and the greyhound dog that chased rabbits that weren’t real
- Seek ye first the Kingdom of God
- Acts 17- Paul visits Athens
- Story about the two American missionaries that brought the Word of God to the hills of Burma
- Matthew 13- Parable of the wheat and the tares
- When you come out of worship you will always come out confident that the Kingdoms of this world will be the Kingdom of our God
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