Quotes About Corporate Worship

#1. Taking the 'desert island challenge' which leads Christians to submit their family life to Sola Scriptura inevitably leads them to desire to submit their corporate worship to Sola Scriptura.
(Excerpt from the forward of "How God Wants Us to Worship Him" by Joseph C. Morecraft)

Douglas W. Phillips

#2. corporate worship is what happens when the body of Christ assembles to hear with one heart and speak with one voice the words, praises, prayers, petitions, and thanks fitting to Christian worship.

Constance M. Cherry

#3. Corporate worship is designed to remind you that in the center of all things is a glorious and gracious King, and this king is not you

Paul David Tripp

#4. Joining the corporate worship of the body of Christ requires that we allow something else - the good of the body - to supercede our personal preferences.

Michael Walters

#5. Corporate worship is to be God-centered.

Mark Driscoll

#6. Seeking God? We have totally revised corporate worship services to be sensitive to "seekers." If worship were to be tailored for seekers, it would be directed exclusively to believers, for no one except believers ever seeks God (Rom. 3:9-12).

R.C. Sproul

#7. You cannot find excellent corporate worship until you stop trying to find excellent corporate worship and pursue God himself.

D. A. Carson

#8. Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

Paul David Tripp

#9. Corporate worship is to be intelligible.

Mark Driscoll

#10. Corporate worship is to be seeker sensible.

Mark Driscoll

#11. Corporate worship is to be unselfish.

Mark Driscoll

#12. Very talented people make some very bad songs so that people with a fourth grade reading level can sing along. Sure, corporate worship is good- but for me, I get very bored in Church trying to worship.

Reese Roper

#13. There is nothing like the time we have with those we love the most. Every moment is precious because we aren't promised tomorrow. Hold on to them tight and cherish them while you're given the chance.

N.E. Henderson

#14. Worship is our response, both personal and corporate, to God for who He is, and what He has done; expressed in and by the things we say and the way we live.

Louie Giglio

#15. The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

James Allen

#16. One day there will be no books ... Yeah right.

Maria The Lone Wolf

#17. Patient dedication to the ordinary and often tedious disciplines of corporate and family worship, teaching, prayer, modeling, and mentoring have been eroded by successive waves of enthusiasm.

Michael S. Horton

#18. If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself - direct experience of life. The same is true for art. Here, too, we an dispense with the masters.

Henry Miller

#19. He antedates time and is wholly independent of it. Time began in Him and will end in Him.

A.W. Tozer

#20. Worship is of fundamental significance to the life of the individual and to the corporate life of the church, yet we rarely hear it taught as a discipline or practice in the gathering of believers.

Carl Tuttle