So one of the things I'm really passionate about as a pastor is worship and liturgy. Liturgy is kind of an

intimidating word, but when I'm using it, I'm just referring to the order of a church's worship. Every church has a kind of liturgy.

Some churches are more liturgical, maybe high church. Other churches tend to have announcements, a few songs, a sermon, maybe communion, maybe not.

But there's a question about whether or not God's word tells us how we should worship

him. Does God reveal to us in the scriptures the way in which he wants to be worshipped

or not? There is debate about this in the Christian church.

That's what I want to be talking with you about.

And I want to highlight one distinction that's really, really important for understanding

properly ordered worship.

Okay, so the first thing I want to say is that God does not just care about the fact that he is worshipped, you know, that he's being worshipped sincerely.

He actually also cares about how he's worshipped.

And I want to share a story from the Bible with you that really illustrates this.

It's in the Old Testament in the

book of Leviticus. In Leviticus chapter 10, the first few verses, you have these two priests,

Nadab and Abihu, and they're offering incense before the Lord, but the way in which they offer

this incense is displeasing to God. Actually, he ends up killing them. He strikes them down with this holy fire.

And there's debate about what exactly they did wrong. There are some people that think, well,

we think Nate Abinabai, who were drunk when they offered this worship to God. They entered into the temple courts, you know, intoxicated.

Other people think maybe they wandered too far into

the temple, into the holy of holies, and so God struck them down. Others think, well, maybe the instance

that they offered wasn't up to Levitical Code. We're not entirely sure, but what we do know is that

it wasn't worship according to how God had prescribed, and so God judged them. Throughout the Old Testament,

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