m Session #1 ² Becoming a Worshiper

m Session #2 ² How Big Is Your God?

m Session #3 ² Surrendering Your Past
m Session #4 ² Surrendering Your Substitutes
m Session #5 ² The Crown of Life
m When have you had a great worship
experience? What made it great?
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of
God·s mercy, to offer your bodies as
living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to
God ² this is your spiritual act of worship.
Do not conform any longer to the
pattern of this world, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind. Then you
will be able to test and approve what
God·s will is ² his good, pleasing and
perfect will.
Session #1 ² Becoming a Worshiper
m Worship is motivated by an awareness of
God·s mercy (verse1). What is mercy?

m How has God shown you mercy?

Session #1 ² Becoming a Worshiper

GRACE = favor bestowed or privilege
conferred

MERCY = Undeserved Grace

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m Worship begins as you ´offer your bodies
as living sacrifices.µ What picture comes
to mind when you imagine offering your
body in this way?
m What does your body have to do with it?
Why doesn·t Paul say, ´Offer your
heartµ?

Session #1 ² Becoming a Worshiper

Worship is not merely inward/mystical.
Worship is not just about the soul.

Worship IS using your mouth

Worship IS using your hands
Worship IS using your eyes, ears, brains,
feet, desires, ambitions, health,
appearance«..etc
Session #1 ² Becoming a Worshiper
m Worship comes to fulfillment as you do
what Paul describes in verse 2. What
does it look like when someone conforms
to the pattern of this world?

m What are the signs that you are being

´transformed by the renewing of your
mindµ?

Session #1 ² Becoming a Worshiper

m Conforms
 To follow the world culture
 To care about what others think, than what
God thinks
 To reflect current signs of time
m Transforms
 To fit into Jesus Christ mould
 To allow God·s world to renew our minds
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Session #1 ² Becoming a Worshiper
m What is one area of pleasing God that
would be a new act of worship for you?

m What is the connection between the

kind of worship you·ve been discussing
and the kind of that goes on in a church
building?

Session #1 ² Becoming a Worshiper

m Worship is not just about singing,
celebrating, ÿ it is to train our hearts for
ALL DAY SURRENDER, to thank God all
day because of his MERCY
m Praise ² acknowledging good quality in
something. Worship goes beyond praise.
It is acknowledging someone or
something as ultimate source of good, of
life itself
Session #1 ² Becoming a Worshiper
m Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of
God·s mercy, to offer your bodies as
living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to
God ² this is your spiritual act of worship.
Do not conform any longer to the
pattern of this world, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind. Then you
will be able to test and approve what
God·s will is ² his good, pleasing and
perfect will.
m Day 1 ² Psalm 29
m Day 2 ² Psalm 96:1-9
m Day 3 ² Psalm 95
m Day 4 ² Isaiah 29:13-14
m Day 5 ² Matthew 15:8-9
m Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us
shout aloud to the rock of our salvation
m Let us come before him with
thanksgiving and extol him with music
and song.
m For the Lord is the great God, the great
King above all gods.
m In his hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to him.
m The sea is his, for he made it, and his
hands formed the dry land
m Come, let us bow down in worship, let us
kneel before the Lord our Maker;
m For he is our God and we are the people
of his pasture, the flock under his care