Worship

Justin Smidstra·2025-06-01

Pastor Justin Smidstra of the First Protestant Reformed Church in Holland, Michigan presents a theological reflection on Christian worship as the highest calling and duty of believers. Drawing extensively from Psalms 95-96 and Isaiah 40, Smidstra emphasizes that worship is the acknowledgment and adoration of God's unique glory and infinite perfections, expressed through prostration and praise. This article articulates the Reformed understanding of worship as a response to God's sovereign majesty and covenant relationship with His people.

"O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our Maker" (Ps. 95:6) We often hear these words calling us together on the Lord's Day. A joyful summons to the highest activity of the Christian life, the most exalted expression of covenant relationship, the soul-satisfying fulfillment of the purpose for which we were created and redeemed: worship of the one true God. To worship is our privilege and duty; to be worshiped is God's exclusive right and due. For He is the Lord our...

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