Personal Worship

    
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What does Worship mean to you? 

Does it mean going to church on a Sunday, singing a few hymns, listening to a few prayers, nodding off during a sermon?

Does it mean saying your prayers on a regular basis?

Does it mean being overwhelmed at the glories of creation, and praising God for his wonderful works?

Or does it mean something completely different?

We are not aware that God is present, let alone active within us.  We can sometimes look back and think that he must have been involved in certain events, but we were not aware at the time.

This module encourages students to think about their relationship with God, identifying it in terms of the way they let God into their lives, and their feelings about this. 

It identifies the different effects on us of communal and personal worship.  It examines the importance of the Word of God - the Bible - in Worship. 

It looks at prayer not as a one-way conversation to God but as an interaction with God, when we can look for feedback in some form.

Most importantly, it introduces the concept of whole-life worship, with our realisation that God is present with us, and available to us, not just for an hour on Sundays, but constantly, every second of every minute of every hour of our lives.

This is a quarter module consisting of eight sessions, and earns a quarter point towards your level 1 studies when successfully completed.

 
 

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