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How would you define worship? Maybe a weekend service comes to mind with preaching and singing.

Maybe you count your midweek small group as a worship experience.

But here's what you need to know about worship.

It's always first your identity before it's ever your activity.

In this final episode of survival skills, Paul Tripp explains how everything we do is somehow, some way, an expression of worship.

Here's Paul.

How often do you worship? Once a week, three times a week, five times a week, ten times a week, more times a week than you can number? When you hear the word worship, what is it that you

think about?

A service, a gathering, songs and preaching, a certain building, a certain edifice, a quiet, personal time in the morning with you and the Lord,

prayers before you go to bed, hymns that you sung many times. When worship comes into your mind,

what is it that you think? What's your definition of worship? Here's what you need to know,

that worship is not first an activity. Worship is first an identity. The reason you worship is that you were created by God

to be a worshipper. You see, you do not divide people into two groups, those who worship and those who

don't. The issue that separates us is what or who we worship. Because of this, you are actually

worshiping every minute of the day. Maybe you're saying, Paul, I just don't know what you're

talking about. Hear this. Everything you do in every situation and location where you exist

is somehow, some way, an expression of worship.

You and I started worshiping the minute we were born, and we haven't stopped

worshiping since, and we will continue to incessantly worship until the day we die.

Our life is one big lifestyle of worship.

The question is, what rules your world of worship?

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