Define "worship" in Christianity

[Sam_777]

In Islam worship means many earthy tasks which are not limited to:

• Physical praying 5 times a day.
• Fasting 30 days a year.
• Pilgrim.
• etc.

What “worship” means in Christianity? Can “love” assumed to be “worshipping”, so if I love JESUS that means it’s some sort of worshipping? or going to the Mass each Sunday is the only way to call that “worshipping”?

 

[DebChris]

The best definition I heard for worship is to “put yourself in the service of” other.
When we worship God, we acknowledge His Lordship, his leadership and place ourselves in His service. We submit to God’s Will.

 

[Wiseowl]

That is their definition of worship, as we pray far more to Mary than what your list entailed.

Worship is an interpretation, its a grey area.

 

[FaithInTheSon]

The best definition I heard for worship is to “put yourself in the service of” other.
When we worship God, we acknowledge His Lordship, his leadership and place ourselves in His service. We submit to God’s Will.

DebChris wins. Flawless victory.

 

[jpjd]

I think the definition of worship/freedom of religion will become a crucial battleground when the Supreme Court hears the cases that come before them regarding the HHS mandate.

 

[cap76]

Worship is something innate to all God’s creatures. Everybody worships something. It is devotion, allegiance, that to which we sacrifice our time, energy, and resources. Although God deserves our all, sin draws the heart away from God (even when we think we are truly worshiping Him). “This people worships me with their lips but their hearts are far from Me.” True worship comes from the heart and is done according His truth, this is the only way to worship God in a manner which will please Him.
John 4:24, “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Worship is not limited to public worship such as when the church gathers, but encompasses all of life. Obedience to the moral law is the greatest demonstration of our worship of God. By our adherence to God’s law, we demonstrate that He is the first and best of beings. Here too, our obedience must be a matter of spiritual, sincere devotion; obeying God out of a deep-rooted conviction that He alone deserves our chiefest devotion, and that what He wants is our greatest concern. God summarizes His law as, “Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, and strength” Deuteronomy 6:5. Paul makes worship very tangible and all-encompassing when he says, “whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Corinthians 10:31

 

[TimeEntrance]

Catholics take a ancient view of worship. So, for Catholics worship entails offering sacrifices. Like animal sacrifices. The ancients would also have communally shared parts of sacrificial animal turned into a meal.

So, it might be said the Mass and the Orthodox Divine Liturgy are high forms of worshiping God in Catholicism/Orthodoxy due to the sacrifice of the Mass/Divine Liturgy.

For Protestants prayer is the highest form of worship. For Catholics and it’s view the Church existing in purgatory and heaven it is not. Although, there are various forms of prayer. Protestants usually only think of prayer as petitionary prayer. For Catholics and Orthodox there is also meditative prayer (rosary, lectio divina), contemplative (emptying the mind and preconceived notions of God), and mantra (the Eastern Jesus Prayer).

 

[fred_conty]

The greatest form of worship is the Mass.

It is the Son of God offering Himself to God the Father for all of us and the entire world.
It is Jesus’ own act, in our behalf, to offer a gift which the Father would not refuse, because it is his only beloved Son. This is the gift that is exceptionally pleasing and worthy of the Father. He looks upon his Son with love. And we have Him right with us every Sunday on our altar to be joined to Him to be accepted with Him.

It is worship that jolts all creation.

Blessed be God.

 

[Sam_777]

Worship is something innate to all God’s creatures. Everybody worships something. It is devotion, allegiance, that to which we sacrifice our time, energy, and resources. Although God deserves our all, sin draws the heart away from God (even when we think we are truly worshiping Him). “This people worships me with their lips but their hearts are far from Me.” True worship comes from the heart and is done according His truth, this is the only way to worship God in a manner which will please Him.
John 4:24, “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
Worship is not limited to public worship such as when the church gathers, but encompasses all of life. Obedience to the moral law is the greatest demonstration of our worship of God. By our adherence to God’s law, we demonstrate that He is the first and best of beings. Here too, our obedience must be a matter of spiritual, sincere devotion; obeying God out of a deep-rooted conviction that He alone deserves our chiefest devotion, and that what He wants is our greatest concern. God summarizes His law as, “Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, and strength” Deuteronomy 6:5. Paul makes worship very tangible and all-encompassing when he says, “whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” 1 Corinthians 10:31

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[Sam_777]

So, it might be said the Mass and the Orthodox Divine Liturgy are high forms of worshiping God in Catholicism/Orthodoxy due to the sacrifice of the Mass/Divine Liturgy.

For Protestants prayer is the highest form of worship.

That was interesting to know…

For Catholics and it’s view the Church existing in purgatory and heaven it is not.

I did not understand this part, please explain.

 

[cap76]

For Protestants prayer is the highest form of worship.

Not true. I would argue that our highest form is public worship when the Church gathers around her Savior, Jesus Christ according to His promise, “where two or three are gathered in My name, I am there in their midst.” Worship then becomes a veritable Heaven on earth.

 

[Cristiano]

I think that worship is defined by what we do and what we do not do:

The Greatest Commandment.*

34i When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together,
35and one of them [a scholar of the law]* tested him by asking,
36“Teacher,* which commandment in the law is the greatest?”
37j He said to him,* “You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
38This is the greatest and the first commandment.
39k The second is like it:* You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
40* l The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.”

The Judgment of the Nations.*

31f “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit upon his glorious throne,
32g and all the nations* will be assembled before him. And he will separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
33He will place the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
35h For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me,
36naked and you clothed me, ill and you cared for me, in prison and you visited me.’
37Then the righteous* will answer him and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?
38When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?
39When did we see you ill or in prison, and visit you?’
40i And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’
41* j Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you accursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
42k For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,
43a stranger and you gave me no welcome, naked and you gave me no clothing, ill and in prison, and you did not care for me.’
44* Then they will answer and say, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, and not minister to your needs?’
45He will answer them, ‘Amen, I say to you, what you did not do for one of these least ones, you did not do for me.’
46l And these will go off to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”