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Points to Ponder: Worship in the Early Church Ardelia Butts WRSP 510: Biblical Foundations of Worship April 30, 2023
The nature of worship changed in the New Testament because of Jesus’s ultimate sacrifice on the Cross. Because of Jesus, humankind has direct access to praise and worship God at all times and in any way. The tearing of the veil allowed the New Testament worshippers that came after Jesus to worship God freely as we do today. The Early Church was allowed to grow in the ways that were necessary for the time because they were recipients of the Holy Spirit after the Day of Pentecost. The Early Church had the option to “worship God foolishly” in front of all people. They were able to share God’s word and boast about Him to anyone who might listen to them. 1 Additionally, the Early Church contributed to worship because they consistently me to share with one another about God’s goodness and the things that He had done through Jesus. The testimonies of the Saints drew people closer to God and enlarged the Church itself greatly. The New Testament worship experiences changed a lot because the people were able to worship God in the ways that were needed for that present time. When the believers received the Comforter (John 14:16) that Jesus promised, they were able to worship God in Spirit and in Truth. Their lives were to then represent who God was and what He did for them. The Early Church can also take credit for establishing the prerequisites for offering worship to God as well. The days of the Old Testament were over and the formalities that came with the rituals were not obsolete. The Early Church members came together often to praise and worship God without regard to the legal standards that had previously been in place. Their communing was well noted and can be seen as the catalyst for the growth of the Church at large. 2 The early believers went from place to place to share the good news with each other and strangers so that they could promote God even more. The service to their communities proved that they understood what they were to do—compel others to come to know Christ and accept the 1 Vernon M. Whaley, Called to Worship (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2009), 275. 2 Ibid, 276.
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