Worshiping in Spirit and in Truth.

A Call to worship.

Themes

True worshipers • Worship in Spirit • Worship in Truth • Total dependance • Willing submission

God has given to us the life of His Son, Jesus — His resurrected life, and now our New Life. And He enables our lives and our worship to be like His.

Scripture reading

John 4:23

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This call to worship¹ comes from Jesus' words in John’s gospel to a rather interesting woman he meets alone at a well.

The time is coming—
indeed it’s here now—
when true worshipers 
will worship the Father 
in spirit and in truth. 

The Father is looking 
for those who will worship him that way.

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Prayer

Father in Heaven, 
we’re here to worship you, 
in Spirit and in Truth, 
guided by your indwelling Holy Spirit. 

Thank you for giving to each of us 
the life of your Son, Jesus — 
his resurrected life, 
and now our New Life. 

As he walked the earth 
in humble dependence upon you 
so many years ago, 
he proclaimed 
that the time had come 
when true worshipers 
would worship you 
in spirit and truth. 

And what he said was true 
because it was him 
who had come 
and he was the perfect example 
of a worshipper — 
a man living 
as you intended man to live, 
delighting in you, 
walking in spirit and truth, 
living in total dependence upon you 
and always 
in willing submission 
to the Spirit. 

Father, enable our lives 
and our worship this morning 
to be like his. 

We ask this in the name of Jesus, 
the one who worshiped you as you deserve.
Amen.

1. This call to worship was given to the small assembly of Christians that gathered in Pathway Church, Beaverdam, Michigan, on Sunday, September 26, 2021.