What Is and Isn't Acceptable in a Worship Service?
Core Christianity
Aaron Simon
4.8 • 585 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
"God doesn't just care that he is worshiped, he cares how he is worshiped." Pastor Adriel Sanchez and Core Christianity producer Aaron Simon discuss what Scripture says is fitting and acceptable in a worship service, and how many evangelical churches have sought to domesticate worship, making it comfortable and casual rather than reverent and transcendent.
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| 0:47.2 | God does not just care about the fact that he is worshipped, but he also cares about how he's worshipped. |
| 0:53.2 | And I think for a lot of people, |
| 0:56.1 | that's, they haven't really thought about that. It's like, well, so long as I'm sincere and my |
| 1:01.0 | heart is in it, it doesn't really matter what we do. You know, like if you want to do something |
| 1:05.6 | differently, that's great, is your heart in it. But what's interesting is when you look at |
| 1:10.6 | scripture in the Old Testament |
| 1:12.7 | and in the New Testament, God is serious about how he is worshipped. |
| 1:25.5 | Pastor Adriel here with my friend Aaron Aaron Simon, a longtime producer of core Christianity, |
| 1:31.5 | and today we're going to have a conversation about worship, which I think is a passion of both |
| 1:36.4 | of ours. |
| 1:37.3 | And so I just want to have kind of a low-key, laid-back, something that is encouraging for people |
| 1:42.6 | as they're thinking through this very important |
| 1:45.0 | subject. |
| 1:46.0 | And so give me a little bit of your background in terms of why this is a question that interests |
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