| WORSHIP - Essence | 崇拜 - 本質 |
| True worship exalts God to his rightful place in our
lives. John Piper 真實的崇拜將上帝高舉到祂在我們心中當有的位置。 |
| Christian worship is at once
the Word of God and the obedience response thereto. W. H. Cadman 敬拜，就是聽進去神的話，並且照著去做。 |
| Worship is transcendent wonder. Thomas Carlyle 敬拜，是超越一切的驚嘆。 |
| To worship God is to realize
the purpose for which God created us. Herbert M. Carson 敬拜神，其實就是活出祂創造我們的初衷。 |
| Worship is the declaration by a creature of the
greatness of his Creator. Herbert M. Carson 敬拜，就是我們這些被創造的人，去宣揚那位創造者有多麼偉大。 |
| Reverence is essential to
worship. Frank Gabelein 如果沒有了敬畏的心，就不算是在敬拜。 |
| Worship is that to which we give our interest, our
enthusiasm and our devotion. Clarence E. MacCartney 你把時間、熱情和心思花在哪裡，哪裡就是你的敬拜。 |
| Worship...is giving to the
Lord the glory that is due in response to what he has revealed to us and done to us in
Jesus Christ his Son. Oswald B. Milligan 敬拜，就是當我們看見上帝透過耶穌為我們所做的一切時，發自內心地把祂該得的榮耀歸還給祂。 |
| Worship is the adoring contemplation of God as he
has revealed himself in Christ and in his Word. J. Oswald Sanders 敬拜，就是專注且深情地注視著那位上帝—正如祂在基督與聖經話語中，向我們展現出的模樣。 |
| In true worship men...have
little thought of the means of worship; their thoughts are upon God. True worship is
characterized by self-effacement and is lacking in any self-consciousness. Geoffrey Thomas 真正的敬拜，是不會去在意那些儀式或技巧，而是全心想著神。那種狀態是你完全忘了自己，甚至忘了「我正在敬拜」這件事。 |
| Worship is the submission of all our nature to God.
It is the quickening of conscience by his holiness, the nourishment of the mind
with his truth, the purifying of the imagination by his beauty, the opening of the heart
to his love, the surrender of the will to his purpose. William Temple 敬拜，是將我們整個人全然交托給神。那是用祂的聖潔來喚醒良知，用祂的真理來滋養思想，用祂的美麗來潔淨想像，用祂的愛來開啟心門，並將我們的意志降服於祂的旨意。 |