I ask the Lord to give me a message
for myself and for you on the subject of worship, true worship. What is true worship? How many people really worship
God? How many here this morning are
here to worship God? Have we worshipped God? And the
fourth chapter of John, the Lord Jesus Christ deals with that
subject. He says in verse 23 of John 4,
the hour cometh and now is, when the true worshippers, when the
true worshippers, is that me? Is that you, true worshippers? shall worship the Father in spirit
and in truth. For the Father seeketh such true
worshipers to truly worship Him in spirit and truth. The Father
seeketh such to worship Him. Now the first thing I noted in
the fourth chapter of John is the Lord Jesus crossed the path
of this woman with whom he's dealing. He crossed her path. It's no accident when God Almighty
encounters a man, meets a man. It's no accident when God brings
a message to a person. In the sixteenth chapter of Acts,
you'll find him dealing with people in various conditions
and surroundings. First of all, He sent a woman
to Paul down by the riverside. Lydia was her name. She came
down by the riverside to attend a service conducted by some Jewish
leaders, and there Paul preached the gospel to her. I don't imagine
she expected that Sabbath morning to meet with what she met with
down by the river. I don't expect that that woman
expected to hear what she heard down there by the river. I don't
expect that she thought her life would be so drastically changed
as it was that Sabbath morning down by the river, but nevertheless,
God met her. And in that same chapter, God
dealt with a young woman in the streets, not down by the river,
not in the church house, but down on the street, a young woman
possessed of demons. God sent his servant to deal
with her, cast the demons out of her and brought her to the
knowledge of Christ. When she got up that morning, and met
that new day filled with the evil spirits, I doubt that she
had any thought whatsoever that that day she would meet the Spirit
of God, the Lord of Glory. And then in that same chapter,
God sent his servant to the jail. He made his servant a prisoner
in order to preach to a jailer. And that jailer that night heard
the gospel of Jesus Christ and was brought to salvation. So
God meets people. under different circumstances,
in different ways, and by different people, brings them his message. God crossed her path. She came to the well to draw
water, not to hear the gospel. She came to the well to draw
water, not to have her life changed. Whitfield tells how that some
people came to hear him preach with stones in their pocket,
with full intention of throwing them at the preacher. but they
left having dropped the stones and also with Christ in their
hearts. So God crossed her path. And
then secondly, he created an interest. If you look at verse
10, he said to this woman, if thou knewest the gift of God,
if you knew what it was all about, you'd ask of me and I'd give
you living water. and you'd never thirst again.
He created an interest. Now where there is no interest,
the message is not going to bring forth any fruit. I can stand
up here this morning and preach on what true worship is, and
if you're not interested in worshiping the Lord of glory, then you're
not going to get anything out of it. The Lord Jesus Christ,
the first thing he did was cross her path, but also he created
an interest in her heart. He talked to her about living
water. He talked to her about thirst. He talked to her about
having thirst quenched. He talked to her about satisfaction. He talked to her about peace
and joy. Are you interested in peace with
God? Are you interested in forgiveness
of sins? Are you interested in eternal
life? Are you interested in communion
with the living God? Are you interested in walking
with God? Are you interested in talking
with God? Are you interested in true worship? That's the first thing Christ
did when he crossed this woman's path, is create an interest. This woman was interested. He
found an interested heart. And all of the preaching that
we do and all of the teaching that we do and all of the exhorting
we do will accomplish nothing if there's not an interested
heart, if there's not a keen interest in what we're talking
about. And then the next thing the Lord Jesus Christ did was
present a problem. In verse 16, he said to the woman,
Go call your husband. and come hither, and the woman
said, I don't have a husband. And the Lord Jesus said, Thou
hast well said, I have no husband. Thou hast had five husbands,
and the man you are now living with is not your husband. In
that thou saidest truly." The Lord Jesus brought up the sin
question. If we commune with God, if we
have peace with God, if we have forgiveness, if we have eternal
We're going to have to face head-on the sin question. We're going
to have to meet the sin question. This is the great problem, the
sin question. This is what the Pharisee wouldn't
face. He went to the temple and he said, I thank you, Lord, I'm
not like other men. I fast, I tithe, I give alms
to the poor. I'm not like everybody else.
I don't have a problem. I don't have a need. I don't
have a thirst. But the writer of the hymn says,
I'll go to Jesus, though my sins like mountains round me rose. I'll go to Jesus, though I am
like other men, and though my sins like mountains round me
rose, the Lord Jesus presented a problem. And then after presenting
that problem, he presented a remedy. The woman said to him, In verse
25, I know this, that when the Messiah comes, when the Redeemer
comes, when the Savior comes, when He of whom Moses wrote,
that prophet, when He comes, when the one that Abraham saw,
when He comes, He's going to answer all our questions. He's
going to tell us all things, and the Lord Jesus said, I that
speak to thee am he. I am the sin offering. I am the
Lamb of God that beareth away the guilt of the world. I am
the great high priest who takes worshipers into the presence
of God. I am the mediator who alone can
make your worship acceptable. I am the one between you and
God. I am the intercessor. I am the
mediator. I am the advocate. You want to
approach God? Approach Him through me. I am
the way, the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but
by me. I am the way to God. You want to worship God? I'll
tell you how to worship God. You want to come before God?
I'll tell you how to come before God. You want to commune with
God? I'll tell you how to commune
with God. I am the way to God. I am the
object of worship. Now let's answer two questions
this morning. First of all, what true worship
is not? What is not? And then secondly,
what true worship really is. Christ deals with it here. He
crossed this woman's path, and I believe God has crossed your
path today. When I prepared this message
to preach to you, I wanted many people to hear it. True worship,
what it is. Let's find out. Are we worshiping
God? Are we playing church? Are we
worshiping God? Are we going through the motions?
Are we really communing with God Almighty, or are we just
going through our little six and seven and ceremonies and
going to church and trying to look religious and powerful?
Are we fulfilling our duties, or are we meeting with God? Christ
said, where two or three are met together in my name, I will
be in their midst. And if he's not here, I'll just
soon not be here. And if he's not in our worship,
I'd just as soon not worship. We're no better than the idolaters. We're no better than the Diana
worshipers. We're no better than the worshipers
of the Son God. If the presence of the living
God is not here, then I ask God to give me a hearing. And last
night I was watching the late news, and the man on WSAZ said
it's going to snow six inches this morning. And I thought to
myself, uh-oh, I ain't going to get many worshipers this morning.
I won't have many people to talk to about true worship. And first
thing I did when the alarm went off this morning, I jumped out
of bed and I pulled open the curtain and I said, they'll be
there. The streets are clear. The worshipers can come. And
I can talk to them about true worship. They'll be there. I'm
so glad. I'm so glad. Well, first of all,
what it's not. What it's not. Number one, get
this now. Write it down if you want to,
because it's so. True worship is not sectarian. It is not sectarian. You say,
what do you mean by sectarian? Parties and denominations, that's
what I mean. That's exactly what I mean. all parties and denominations
which lay claim to a corner on God only deceive themselves."
I don't care who they are. Worship is not sectarian. God's
not a badness. And God's not a Camelite, and
God's not a Pentecostal, and God's not a Catholic. I beg your
pardon. This woman said down here, In
verse 20, our fathers say, that's the Samaritans, our fathers say
that this is the place to worship. And the Jews say that this is
the place to worship. And the Samaritans say God is
here, and the Jews say God is there. And Christ said neither
one of them are right. Neither one of them are right.
In Christ there's neither Jew nor Gentile. In Christ there's
neither male nor female. An exclusive religion can never
be a spiritual religion. Can't do it. There's no way.
An exclusive religion can never be a spiritual religion. In Galatians chapter 2, turn
over there with me. Now the Apostle Paul hit Simon
Peter right between the eyes with the very thing that I'm
saying right now, and straightened him out real quick. And my friends,
there are some sincere and humble men and women who are misguided
on this very point. And if the illustrious Simon
Peter can be wrong here, you and I can be too. Simon Peter
was a Jew, and Simon Peter had been circumcised, and he had
followed the ceremony, and he had worshiped on the Sabbath,
and he had kept the ceremonial law of Moses. And the Lord Jesus
Christ came and saved him and brought him to a knowledge of
salvation by grace through faith. And he went down and preached
to some Gentiles against his own desires. God sent him down
to preach to Cornelius, and then he went down to the church at
Galatia. And he ate with the Gentiles, and fellowship with
the Gentiles, and worship with the Gentiles. And then some preachers
came down from Jerusalem, where James was pastor. They came down
there and they said, Peter, you ought not be eating with these
Gentiles. Don't you know we Jews have a corner on the truth? Don't
you know these Gentiles are still outsiders, that God is with the
Jews, saluations of the Jews? And these Gentiles are going
to have to be circumcised, and these Gentiles are going to have
to keep the Law of Moses if these Gentiles get into the Kingdom
of God. And Peter dissimulated with these
men. He quit eating with the Gentiles
and he started only having his fellowship with the Jews. In
fact, Barnabas was drawn away by their influence, and Paul
came down there in verse 11 of Galatians 2. Paul said, Peter,
you're wrong in this. He said, When Peter was come
to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be
blamed. And then he tells about what
Peter had done. No denomination and no party has a corner on
God. Worship is not sectarian. Whether it's Catholic or Baptist
or Presbyterian or Methodist or what it is, it is not sectarian. And then secondly, it is not
local. Look back at John chapter 4.
This woman said, Our fathers say that in this mountain, right
here, here's the place to worship God. And you Jews say Jerusalem
is the place to worship God. And the error of this woman and
the people of her day, now listen to this, the error of this woman
and the people of her day lay in ascribing any efficacy whatsoever
to a place of worship. Now we're doing the same thing
today. We go to church, and when we
say we go to church, we're talking about a building, to worship
God. Is there some special significance
about that place? Do you have to go to that place
to worship God? That's what this woman is saying
right here. You want to worship God? Come to the mountain. You
want to worship God? Go to Jerusalem. And the Lord
Jesus Christ said, Neither in this mountain nor at Jerusalem. God is a spirit. Neither in this
mountain nor at Jerusalem. Now there was a time when the
tabernacle stood. There was a time when the veil
was intact. There was a time when that ark
and that table of showbread and that mercy seat and that candlestick,
and there was a time when that tabernacle stood and some significance
could be given to a place. God dwelt there, and God revealed
himself there, and God met in the tabernacle with the people.
But that tabernacle is a picture of Christ. That's what that tabernacle
is. And when Christ died on that
cross, That veil was rent in two and that tabernacle was destroyed
as far as approaching God in the tabernacle and God meeting
with the people in the tabernacle. God meets with the people in
Christ and the people meet with God in Christ. And where Christ
is and where his people are, he is to be worshipped. He is
to be adored. Now get this, there is no special
efficacy or significance as far as worshiping God is concerned
in a building, in the tomb of a prophet, in the shrine of a
saint, or in the Holy Land. Now, that's so. And anybody who attaches some
significance and some spiritual efficacy as far as worship is
concerned to a building or to a shrine or to the tomb of a
dead saint or to any of those celebrated shrines in Jerusalem he lacking on a knowledge of
true worship. I'm telling you the truth. If God Almighty put any significance
to shrines and tombs and buildings and designated spots on the earth,
he would have preserved the cross. He would have preserved the cross
and put it up in some centrally located place and told all of
us to come and touch it and be made holy. You're not made holy
by touching a block of wood, you're made holy by the presence
and power and sanctifying influence of the Holy Ghost. whether you're
in a barn or down by the creek or in a jail or in a cathedral
or in a church or where in the heart of Africa. Neither in this mountain nor
at Jerusalem. Now, I hope I don't make you
mad, but I heard a preacher say last Sunday, and this is one
of the errors right here, that he wanted everybody to send the
name of a lost loved one to him. He's a famous preacher, known
all over the United States, known all over the world. He said,
I'm going to the Holy Land, and I want you to send the name of
your lost loved one in an envelope, and I'll take it in my pocket
to the Holy Land, and I'll take it to Mount Calvary, and I'll
lay it on Mount Calvary. Now, I'm asking you, is there
some efficacy to that? Is there some significance to
that? Can I get closer to Christ over yonder on the side of a
hill, called Golgotha, than I can out on the side of a hill in
eastern Kentucky, in Boyd County or Greenup, Kentucky, huh? Can
I? That's what this woman says here.
Our fathers say, come to the mountain and meet God. You Jews
say, go to Jerusalem and meet God, and that's what they're
saying today. Go to the Holy Land. It'll cost
you a little bit now to go, and I get a little cut out of it. There's one preacher I know made
something like $40,000 last year taking people to the Holy Land,
personally. But now let's go to the Holy
Land and meet God. God ain't in the Holy Land, if
you'll pardon the grammar. There's nothing holy about that
land. The earth is the Lord's and the
fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein. True
worship is not located in a place. It's not local. I'm telling you
the truth now. It's what Christ said right here,
neither in this mountain nor at Jerusalem. It all depends
on how big your God is. And then worship, true worship,
is not external. Now, brethren, it's dangerous
to attach spiritual value in worship to external forms of
religion. People are impressed. I know
they are. I know they're impressed with
this pompous ritual. Oh, how they're impressed. If
I could just wear a robe up here, I know it'd impress you that
I was a little holier than I am. People are impressed with candles. Just turn the lights down low
and light some candles, and it'll look real religious. People are
impressed with crosses and relics. They're impressed with these
heavy stone walls that look ancient. The more ancient and old it looks,
the more religious it looks. They're impressed with the dark,
dim atmosphere. They're impressed with the ministerial
tones of a preacher who can talk real religious. They're impressed with the quiet
humming of the choir or the soft playing of the organ while somebody
prays in a melodious voice. Turn to Isaiah chapter 1. I'm
telling you the truth. Isaiah chapter 1. Look at it.
Look at it, Isaiah 1, verse 11, God says, to what purpose is
the multitude of your sacrifices unto me, saith the Lord. Isaiah
1, 11, I am full of your burnt offerings and the fat of fed
beasts. I delight not in the blood of
bullocks and lambs and he-goats. When you come to appear before
me, who hath required this at your hand to tread my course? Bring no more vain oblations. Incense is an abomination to
me. Your new moons and your Sabbath
and the calling of your assemblies, I cannot away with. It's iniquity. Even your solemn meeting is iniquity,
God says. Your new moons and your appointed
feasts, my soul hates, God says. They're trouble and I'm weary
of them. And when you spread forth your
hands, Oh, that looks real religious, doesn't it? A man stands and
holds his hands up to heaven with a smile on his face and
a real pious look, and God says, I'll hide my eyes from you, and
when you make many prayers, I won't hear you. Your hands are full of blood.
You call me Lord with your lips. that your hearts are far from
me," God says. You come and you sit as my people,
but your hearts are far from me. Turn to Micah. Listen to
this. In Micah chapter 6 it is, verse
6 through 8, in the book of Micah, and God says in chapter 6, verse
Wherewith shall I come before the Lord? That's what we're talking
about, isn't it? Coming before the Lord. Wherewith
shall I bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before
him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? Will the
Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousands of
rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for
my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? Is worship external? God going
to be pleased with the spreading of the table and the soft white
linen and the crosses and the shined brass implements and all
of these motions we go through, Christ said, God is a spirit. Neither in this mountain nor
at Jerusalem, but true worshipers will worship him in spirit and
truth. Father seeks that kind of worship. Now quickly, what is true worship? It's not sectarian. I know that. It's not what the Samaritans
say or the Jews. It's not local. It's not in this
mountain. It's not in Jerusalem. If I thought
I could find God by walking somewhere, I'd start out this morning, wouldn't
you? But Paul said in Romans, salvation
is not very far from any of us. It's in your mouth and on your
tongue and on your lips. And it's not local, it's not
external. What is it? It's spiritual. It's
spiritual. God is a spirit, and they that
worship him worship him in spirit, in spirit. not in a mountain,
not in a building, not at a shrine, not externally, but worship him
in the soul, in the heart, in spirit. In spirit as opposed
to form, in spirit as opposed to ceremony, in spirit as opposed
to rituals, Now I want you to turn with me to 1 Kings chapter
8. Now this is important here in
1 Kings chapter 8. This is back, this scripture
was written back in the day when local and external worship and
ceremony was in its fullest operation. This is the day when this was
written, when Solomon prayed this prayer. This was during
the very time when they had just completed a multi-million dollar
temple. And they had all of the priesthood
and all of the helpers, and they had all of the uniforms of religion
and all of the sacrifices. They had all of these external,
localized ceremonies that God had ordained for worship as types
and shadows and pictures of Christ and worship to come. And even
in that day, Solomon expressed the spirituality required of
a worshiper. In 1 Kings 8, verse 26, listen
to Solomon as he prays, And now, O God of Israel, let thy word,
I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant
David my father. but will God indeed dwell on
the earth? Behold, the heaven and heavens
of heavens cannot contain thee, how much less this house that
I have built. Yet have thou respect unto the
prayer of thy servant and to his supplication, O Lord my God. to hearken unto the cry and to
the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee today, that
thine eyes may be opened towards this house night and day, even
toward the place of which thou hast said, My name will be there,
that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant
shall make towards this place." and hearken thou to the supplication
of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray
towards this place, and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place,
and when thou hearest, forgive." Listen to Isaiah in Isaiah chapter
66, verse 1 and 2. Even Solomon recognized that
the spirituality of worship, it's not sectarian, it's not
external, it's not local. God is a spirit. God dwells in
the heavens. The heavens of heavens can't
contain him. Listen to Isaiah, in Isaiah 66,
verse 1, Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and
the earth is my footstool. Where is the house that you built
unto me, and where is the place of my rest? For all these things
hath my hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord. But to this man will I look."
Uh-oh, here's what I'm interested in. Your monumental cathedrals, the
ringing of your bells and the chanting of your choirs and your
priests, and your uniforms of religion. God said, I made all
these things. But to this man will I look."
Here's the man, here's the worshipper. This is what Christ said to this
woman. She said, in this mountain. Christ said, uh-uh. The Jews
say, in Jerusalem. Christ said, uh-uh. The true
worshipper shall worship the Father in spirit. And to this
man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite
spirit. and trembleth at my word." That's
spirit. It's not merely the rising incense,
the bleeding victim, or the bended knee, or the outstretched hand. If the heart is missing, worship is nothing but solemn
mockery. That's right. The body is present,
and all of the rituals are here, and all of the ceremonies are
provided, and the atmosphere is produced. But if the heart
is missing, it's solemn mockery. It's blasphemy. That's what it
is. Let the potsherds of the earth
strive with the potsherds of the earth, but let not a man
strive with his maker." You don't play games when you come before
God. You better play your games, he
said, somewhere else. You better play games somewhere
else. True worship is spiritual. To this man will I look. to the
man of a poor and a contrite heart. What is a poor in spirit? I have nothing, know nothing,
am nothing. Christ is everything. What is
a contrite heart? It is a broken heart, broken
over my sin, broken over my failure, broken over my past, broken over
my present, broken over all of these things that have transgressed
the law of a holy God, broken in love for Christ. broken in
submission to his will, to this man will I look, to the man of
a poor and a contrite spirit that trembles at my word. True
worship is born of love, secondly. I want you to notice John 4 again. This is important here. This
is an important word. First of all, true worship is
spiritual. Secondly, it's born of love.
Did you notice how often the Lord Jesus uses the word Father
when he talks about worship? In verse 21, he said, "'Woman,
you believe me, the hour is coming when you shall neither in this
mountain nor at Jerusalem worship the Father.'" Verse 23, "'The
hour is coming, and now is when the true worshiper shall worship
the Father.'" for the Father seeketh such to worship him."
Now listen to this carefully, this is so. The predominant spirit
in idolatry is fear, fear. The predominant spirit
in true worship is love, is love, that's Christ said,
when you pray, say, Our Father. And then the Apostle Paul said
in Romans chapter 8, We have not received the spirit of bondage
again to fear, but we have received the spirit of adoption, whereby
in our worship we cry, Father, Father. How many times did Christ say
to his disciples, Be not afraid? How many times did he say to
his disciples, Fear not, I am with you? True worship is born
of true love and true reverence. The pagan Indian worshiped his
gods out of fear. He feared the old priest, he
feared the evil spirits, he feared the sun god, the moon god, the
rain god, he feared all these things. True worshipers come
and say, Our Father. Sure, there's an awe and a reverence
and a fear before the great God, but it's not a slavish fear.
It's the reverence and fear of a son. You understand that? You men who are fathers and you
men who are sons of Christian fathers, you love your father
very much. Do you fear him? Yes, I do. Well, is it a slavish fear? Uh-uh. Well, how can you fear and love
at the same time? I can't explain it, I just know
that it's so. When I was growing up, I loved
my father, and I also had respect for him, and a certain fear of
his disapproval, and a fear of his anger, and a fear of his
chastisement. But I still loved And I could
come before him and ask him for things, and I could come before
him and talk with him, but I still feared him and respected him. They who worship God only from
fear. Listen to this, Don. They'd worship
the devil if he appeared. That's right. They who worship God only out
of fear. would worship the devil if he
appeared. Then true worship is universal. I said true worship is spiritual.
True worship is born of love. You love God, you'll worship
him. You'll feast on his presence, on his grace, and on his mercy.
And then it's universal. Because the worship of God is
simple, because the worship of God is spiritual in its nature,
there's no place where I can't worship God. No place. Because the worship of God is
simple, what does it take to have worship? It takes a man
and God. You've got to have a candle.
I beg your pardon. If you've got to have an organ
playing softly, oh, I beg your pardon, but you've got to have
nothing but a man and God. God's everywhere, and God's where
I am, and I can worship God right there. Oh, how unlike, how unlike
the spacious sanctuaries, how unlike the expensive arches and
stained-glass windows was the upper room. And yet there our
Lord in person appeared to His disciples. And yet the Holy Ghost
in all of His mighty power fell upon the apostles in the upper
room. And how inferior to the upper
room was the prison cell in which Paul and Silas sang praises unto
God. You can't worship God, preacher,
in a jailhouse. Paul did. He did. And God came down in
such power that he shook the doors off the jailhouse. And
they had a conversion down there. And then in latter years, The
true worshipers didn't have the worship place of cathedrals,
the religion of churches, or even barns. They hid in caves. They hid in dens. And there they
prayed, and there they met God. And there they wrote their names
on the walls of those caves. I read a story one time about
a young lady who was going to church one Sunday morning. She
lived in a country where it's against the law to go to church,
unless you went to the state church. And they had policemen
out on the streets, you know. These people worshiped God. They
hid in caves, and they hid in basements, and they hid underground,
and they hid in storm cellars, and they hid in somebody's old
rundown shack just to worship God. And they sang real quietly.
so they couldn't be heard outside. And they preached real quietly. And she was on her way to church
one Sunday morning. She was just a young lady, and
one of the policemen stopped her. And he said, Where are you
going? Well, she couldn't lie to him.
And yet she didn't want to go to jail. So she said, My elder
brother died. And they're reading the will
this morning down at my uncle's house. And I'm going to listen
to the reading of the will and see what he left me." And the
policeman said, Well, you go on. And she did. She went down
and heard how Jesus Christ, her brother, died on the cross and
left her eternal life and the forgiveness of sins. I want to
worship God, don't you? And I don't want to worship him
in strife and discord. I want to worship God. And I
don't want God's worship to be confined to a place or to a denominational
name. or to external clanging of glasses
and tinkling of cymbals and shining of the brass crucifix. I want
to meet God where He is, and God's out yonder in the woods
and on the streets and in my home, and God is where His people
are. True worship requires only a
man and God. True worship renews the spirit
as food and sleep renew the body. Worship is a thirsty lamb crying
out for the rain. Worship is the voice of a child
in the dark night crying for his mother. Worship is Jacob
going back to Bethel. Worship is David singing a song. Worship is Simon Peter going
out and weeping bitterly. Worship is Job mourning over
his children. Worship is Moses seeking a remedy
for the serpent's bite. Worship is the redeemed in glory
singing praises to the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what worship is.
worship spiritual. They that worship the Father
worship him in spirit and truth, for the Father seeketh such."
Little boy, little girl, the Father seeketh such to worship
him. You don't have to be a preacher
to worship God. Sometimes that's a handicap.
Mother, Dad, the Father seeketh such to worship Him. You don't
have to be a deacon or an elder to worship God. Sometimes that's
a handicap. Mother, Dad, the Father seeketh
such to worship Him. You don't have to be in the pulpit
to worship God. Sometimes that's a handicap.
You don't have to be leading other people. You don't have
to be standing up giving your testimony. You don't have to
even put it in words. they that worship God worship
him in spirit." Our Father, teach us to call
upon thee while we sojourn on this earth and especially in
the