Worship (A): Seven Sanctuaries

<p>For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ <a href="https://www.douglasjacoby.com/worshipa/" target="_blank"><strong>website.</strong></a></p><p><strong>Introduction to the series: important questions</strong></p><ul><li>Worshippers enjoy healthier, more dynamic lives than non-worshippers. Why is that?</li><li>What (if anything) does the Old Testament have to offer Christians?</li><li>What disqualifies worship?</li><li>How does true worship fortify lame spiritual lives?</li><li>How does New Testament worship differ from the Old Testament variety?</li><li>How has the church approached worship through the ages (and will it every learn from its own history)?</li><li>Have our (mis)conceptions about heavenly worship <i>demotivated</i> us?</li></ul><p><strong>The essence of worship</strong></p><ul><li>Reverence offered a divine being or supernatural power; an act of expressing such reverence</li><li>A form of religious practice with its creed and ritual</li><li>Extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem</li><li>“It is a delusion to think that because we suddenly feel expansive and poetic in the presence of the storm or stars or space that we are spiritual. I need only remind you that drunkards or tyrants or criminals can have those ‘sublime’ feelings, too. Let’s not image that they constitute worship.” – A. W. Tozer, <i>Whatever Happened to Worship?</i> 124</li></ul><p><strong>Worship in ancient (pagan) world</strong></p><ul><li>Energetic</li><li>Weather deities</li><li>Noise, instruments</li><li>Immoral: ritual prostitution</li><li>Sacrifice: infants</li><li>Mutual manipulation</li><li>Stark contrast to ethical monotheism (readings from Isaiah 1)</li></ul><p><strong>7 Sanctuaries</strong></p><ul><li>Eden as primal Temple (Genesis)</li><li>Tabernacle (Exodus)</li><li>Temple (1 Kings)</li><li><i>[In exile: Babylon / Egypt / Samaria</i>]</li><li>2nd Temple / Herod's Temple</li><li>Christ’s body (John 2, 1)</li><li>The Church (1 Cor 3)</li><li>New Jerusalem (Rev 21)</li></ul><p>