Corporate Worship pt. 4

So far this week, I have tried to show attitudes and actions we can take leading up to, on the morning of, and even during, the corporate worship service, to give it the place and seriousness it deserves. But there is also even things we can do after the service to keep it in the place it deserves from our lives. Remember, it we truly claim to love Jesus, we must also desire to worship Him with His body, keeping this activity as the centerpiece of all else we do. Putting other activities or people above the worship service is to tell the watching world or even those people that there are things more important to us than Jesus Himself.

Keeping the worship service as center and serious even after it is over, requires us to do reflection and response in our lives from all that has just happened. We must reflect and respond right after the service has ended and also throughout the rest of the day and ensuing week. Here is a list of things we can do to reflect and respond to the corporate worship service. These activities we can do to keep the seriousness of the service alive beyond the 90 minutes of it.
-Walking around and talking to the rest of Jesus body around us, with what they found meaningful and challenging from the service or teaching time.
-Asking our spouses on the drive or walk home to explain what they heard in the service.
-Asking others what convicted them during the service.
-Even talking with others not in the service, about ways that we were delighted in God again becasue of the worship we were just a part of.
-Spending the Sunday afternoon rereading the passage that was taught.
-Spending time in prayer letting the Holy Spirit saturate our soul with what took place in the service.
-Giving the Word and the Spirit time to convict us of sin, teach us deeper truths, uncover our weaknesses, increase our faith, and bind our wounds.
-Ending the day thanking God for all that took place during the most important day of the week and thank Him for what will take place in the week to come, in preparation for next Sunday.

Sunday is the most important day of the week. The importance of Sunday does not end when the service ends, but continues on throughout the day and in the rest of the week. Because of Sunday we have the knowledge and power to get up on Monday and live the rest of the week to the glory of God, knowing that the next Sunday is not to far away. God gave us the 7th day, the day of rest, the most important day of the week, as a gift to us, so that we would have a day set for only Him in every aspect, action, and attitude.

The question I want to end this serious of post with is this; Do you value Sunday as much as God does?