Up-reach to the Lord in worship results in outreach to the World! Our passion for the presence of God in our worship should be so contagious that it not only impacts the people in worship around us, but should reach the whole world through prayer, going, and giving. Psalm 40 . . . "Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord."
Worship is the goal of evangelism and missions and evangelism/missions is the fruit of worship. When Jesus evangelized the woman at the well, He talked to her about what it meant to be a worshipper. In Romans 15, Paul preached the gospel . . . "so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God." He evangelized in order to produce worshippers. Worship is the goal of evangelism.
When we are truly worshipping, evangelism will happen. Throughout God's Word we find that when there is an environment of worship God commissions us to go and take His message to the world. In Isaiah 6 - "Holy, Holy Holy, . . . Go and tell the people." Even the Great Commission came out of a time of worship: "When they saw Him, they worshipped Him . . .Then, Jesus came to them and said, "Go and make disciples of all nations." In the Philippian jail, what started as worship ended in evangelism. The greatest example of how evangelism can spring out of worship was also the greatest example of evangelism --the Day of Pentecost.
Our passion to glorify God compels us to become messengers of His glory!!
A Melody from Michael J. . . . a Personal and Worship Blog
