10 More Ways to Improve Your Church Worship Service Ten More Ways to Improve Your Church's Worship Serive The enthusiastic response to Ten Ways to Improve Your Church's Worship Service has encouraged me to write a sequel. If you are unfamiliar with the Ten Ways article, you should read it first.
While there are some exceptions here, the suggestions in that article, as a whole, are more important than these. You can link to it by clicking here or by pointing your browser to www.SpiritualDisciplines.org/10ways.html. • Plan worship only for people who can worship. Many churches plan their worship services as though unbelievers can worship. But the Apostle Paul makes plain in 1 Corinthians 12:3 that 'no one can say, 'Jesus is Lord,' except by the Holy Spirit.' Anyone can utter the words, of course, but unless the Holy Spirit indwells a person they cannot say such things as a sincere expression of true worship. In other words, those who do not know Jesus as Lord (and thus do not have the Holy Spirit) cannot worship God, so why design the worship of God for those incapable of worship?