Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll Podcast.

For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in

Scottsdale, Arizona, visit realfafed.com where you'll find study guides to go along with

each sermon series as he preaches verse by verse through books of the Bible, daily

devotions, free e-books, and more.

Now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.

Alrighty, I'm super excited.

We start a brand new series today.

We're going to take about a month and we're going to look at worship.

And I really believe that this is something that the Lord wants us to individually and

collectively focus on and grow in during this season.

And so I'm super, super excited.

If you've got a Bible, you can go to Revelation chapter four.

That's where it will be.

But the difference between Christian worship and non-Christian worship is very, very significant

and very, very simple.

In every other religion, other than Christianity, we go up to God through your good works,

or karma, paying off your debt through cycles of birth and rebirth, through going to sacred

places and doing sacred things.

You're making yourself acceptable to God and you're bringing yourself into God's presence.

Christianity is antithetical and opposed to that.

We don't go up to God.

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