The kind of idolatry that pervades the church today is that idolatry where we take the biblical revelation of God.

And we look at those attributes of God that we find distasteful such as his sovereignty, his holiness, his justice, his wrath.

And we say, oh, we don't like those, we like the love of God, the mercy of God, the grace of God.

And we construct a God who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty, no justice, no holiness, no wrath.

And that we create a God with our own mind, who is not God. That God is an idol.

The only God that we are to worship is the God who reveals himself in sacred scripture.

When we visit a church for the first time and walk out, we might say, I really like that service.

Or perhaps I didn't like it at all, I didn't like that music.

Is that how we should evaluate a worship service?

How should Christians worship?

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham and thank you for joining us for today's edition of Renewing Your Mind.

We spend a lot of time thinking about our opinions of a church service.

But have we ever taken the time to consider, did God like it?

This week as Dr. Sproul has been taking us through his series, five things every Christian needs to grow.

Today he's going to tackle worship and help us understand what it means to worship God in spirit and truth.

He is Dr. Sproul.

We continue now today with our study of the five things every Christian needs to know, to grow up in the maturity in Christ.

And those five things, of course, are how to study the Bible, how to pray, how to worship God, how to serve God, and how to be a good steward.

Now these, of course, are not the only considerations that we have in our spiritual growth, but we've isolated these five as critical things that every Christian needs to understand in their Christian life.

And we've already seen the matter of studying the scriptures and prayer.

And so today we're going to begin our consideration of worship.

Now I ought to preface this by saying that we're living in a time of great upheaval and confusion about the whole subject of worship, at a time unprecedented in American cultural history with respect to experiments that are taking place with worship and perhaps the most creative period of our history.

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