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Truth For Life Daily Program

Concerning Worship (Part 1 of 2)

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

Religion & Spirituality, Alister, Truth, Bible, Parkside, Allister, Begg, Truthforlife, Teaching, Alistair, Christianity, For, Life

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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It’s possible to attend church weekly without experiencing God’s Spirit and presence. Genuine worship involves more than simply showing up and taking a seat. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg explains why a shift in your perspective may be necessary.

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It's

0:03.0

It's possible to attend church every week and yet never truly experience God's presence.

0:31.3

Today on Truth for Life, we'll find out why genuine worship involves more than just showing up and taking a seat in the pew.

0:39.5

Alistair Begg explains why a paradigm shift in our perspective may be necessary.

0:49.7

Oh God, our Father, with our Bibles open on our laps, we earnestly desire that you would be our

0:55.3

teacher.

0:56.0

We are in desperate need of your help in speaking and listening and in responding properly.

1:02.6

And so to you, we look in Jesus' name.

1:05.7

Amen.

1:09.0

The preacher, the pundit, has been going down various avenues, and here in the opening section of chapter 5,

1:16.1

it's as though he has paused down some of these dead-end streets and cast his glance on the worshipping throngs.

1:26.4

And as he observes, the comings and goings of the crowds to the place of

1:30.5

worship, and as he apparently sits in on some of their activities, it becomes apparent to him

1:37.4

that all is not well. That unreality is not simply the precinct of the unbelieving population, but that unreality can so easily and quickly pervade those who profess faith.

1:54.1

And the people that he's observing in their ins and outs and activities seem to have forgotten where they are and at the same time what they're

2:04.0

doing. The target, I think, that he has in mind is the individual who comes fairly routinely to

2:11.2

participate in worship, the kind of person who likes a number of the songs, taps along to the tunes, moans about the ones that he

2:19.3

doesn't like, listens with half an ear, never really remembers anything, and certainly never gets

2:25.0

down to doing what he had felt he ought to do when in a surge of emotion there was something

2:31.1

stirring in his heart concerning the Bible. The individual has largely not

2:37.0

forgotten where he is and who he is, but has completely misplaced any notion of who God is.

2:45.4

And it is to this individual that the writer speaks. Now, he's dealing with the then, and we're living in the now,

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