The Lord's Supper in just a moment will become worship, if in our hearts we are saying he

is worth remembering. How do we worship Christ while partaking in the Lord's Supper?

That's the question John Piper answers from 1 Corinthians 11, 17 to 34, in this episode of

Light and Truth. This sermon was originally preached at Bethlehem Baptist Church on the

7th, 1997.

It's fitting that in a series on worship we deal with the place and the meaning of the Lord's Supper

in worship which is what I want to do for a few minutes this morning before we come to the table.

The eating of the Lord's Supper in the New Testament is never called worship and the gathering of

the church to eat the Lord's Supper is never called worship in the New Testament. In fact no services

in the New Testament are ever called worship and the reason I stress this week after week is to

break us of the habit in our language and in our minds of equating worship with what we're doing

right now. This is worship and we should probably use a term like corporate worship or gathered

worship or congregational worship because for many of us we make a dreadful mistake in our thinking

as well as our language when the only time we ever use the word worship is to refer to this

event and some of us an even worse mistake to part of this event. Well the New Testament never

refers to this event as worship and there's a reason for that that we've been developing over

these last three or four weeks namely that in the New Testament the radical point about worship

is that it is driven into the heart as a matter of spirit and truth and it flows out of the heart

in all of life not mainly in services. Thus we have defined the essence of worship as the

inner experience of treasuring the beauty and truth of Christ. The essence of worship is the

inner experience of treasuring, valuing, cherishing the beauty and the truth and the worth of Christ

and secondly we've said that the outward forms of worship are the ways that this inner experience

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