Do We Worship? Here is a Test

Our Associate Pastor of Praise and Worship asked the choir to participate in a Bible study for the month of July. It was 30 days of lessons on effective worship. Well, I just finished 75 days later. It must take me awhile to assimilate. I guess I’m a slow learner. The study ends with the challenge of evaluation and goal setting to make sure that a change in one’s praise life has really happened. The teacher in me has to make and take a test to verify any learning. That’s just how I’m used to assessment. So I’ve got my #2 pencil ready. Get your pencil ready too.

Do I Truly Worship? Test

 Psalm 96:1-9, Psalm 105:2, John 4:23, Hebrews 13:15

Scale 1-5      

1 = always, 2 = mostly, 3 = working on this, 4 = new concept to incorporate, 5= further study and practice required

1.       Do I worship?  ______

                                Worship the Lord in the splendor of His holiness.

2.       Do I conduct my worship correctly? ______

                                True worshippers will worship in spirit (holiness) and in truth (sincerity.)

3.       Do others know I worship? ______

                                Praise His name.  Declare His glory. Tell of all His wondrous works.

4.       Do I worship constantly and consistently? ______

                                Proclaim His salvation day after day.

5.       Do I expand my worship to include the entire world? ______

                                 Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous deeds among the people.

6.       Is God pleased with my worship? ______

Through Him, Let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name. And do not neglect doing well and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.

I won’t tell you my scores so you don’t have to tell me yours. Let’s just say worship is an ongoing work we all must practice. The more we worship the more we glorify our awesome creator redeemer God.

The authors of the study say to set goals for continuing effective worship using the acrostic; SMART (a G.T. Doran management concept.) I have made my own words for SMART worship. Sorry Mr. Doran.

S – Spiritual Worship 

      (Make sure I am spiritually attuned to God’s word, work, and plan through prayer.)

M – Mature Worship  

        (Make sure I am growing in the knowledge of Christ through Bible study.)

A – Aggressive Worship

       (Make sure everyone who knows me knows that these things are my daily priority.)

R – Real Worship 

      (Make sure I keep my feelings balanced with the truth of God’s character.)

T – Theological Worship

      (Make sure my worship is confirmed by comparing my actions to the Bible.)

If our worship is spiritual, mature, aggressive, real, and theological then God is pleased with our praise.

We are practicing SMART worship.

And we get an “a” on the test for today.

Put your pencils down.

But the test is not over.

There will be a pop quiz tomorrow.