Is Worship Boring?

 As a kid I always thought worship was boring.  I have never liked singing very much and since, in my limited understanding at the time, worship = singing, you can see why I was not so enthused. Added to this was the fact that I understood heaven as a place of continual worship - a place of continual singing.  I want to remind you this morning of what we talk about every summer at SB2W.  All of life is worship.  By this I do not mean that all of life is an opportunity to sing.  Worship encompasses so much more than singing and Sundays.  At camp over and over we talk about glorifying God on the athletic field.  The point is that there is equally an opportunity to worship God as you compete in sports as there is anywhere else.  Sports, time with friends, academics, playing in the band, a family dinner...every moment in life is an opportunity to worship. 

Winning the Reward

 "Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward." 2 John 8

Losers and winners are terms we are all familiar with, but ones that we don't see too often in the Bible.  Are you interested in the full reward?  Or would you be content to lose the reward that John talks about in the above passage.  John did not want his readers to lose sight of what he had worked so hard for on their behalf.  What he had worked so hard to do is teach them to follow Christ and obey His commands (see v. 6).  Think about what we worked for this summer.  What were the things the ministry of SB2W worked hard to instill in you?  There are many, but here are just a handful:

Devotional Passages for week of December 3-10

Monday: Daniel 11:2-35, 1 John 3:7-24, Psalm 122:1-9, Proverbs 29:1

Tuesday: Daniel 11:36-12:13, 1 John 4:1-21, Psalm 123:1-4, Proverbs 29:2-4

Wednesday: Hosea 1:1-3:5, 1 John 5:1-21, Psalm 124:1-8, Proverbs 29:5-8