{"id":211,"date":"2008-05-29T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/?p=211"},"modified":"2011-03-12T18:48:43","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T00:48:43","slug":"why-worship-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/why-worship-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Worship Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"iamanoffering | Sunday Recap\" href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/worship-matters-is-here-plus-my-promised-sunday-recap\/\">Yesterday I mentioned<\/a> that I was of the winners of <a title=\"Worship Matters | Win a Free Copy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worshipmatters.com\/2008\/05\/free-copy-of-worship-matters-for-twenty-bloggers\">Bob Kauflin&#8217;s book giveaway.<\/a> Here is my response to his question of &#8220;why worship matters:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is the ultimate purpose of a follower of Jesus? Looking at each answer that might be given to that question, a common theme lingers: to glorify Him.\u00a0  If you believe that the ultimate purpose of a Christ-follower is to make disciples,\u009d you still must glorify Jesus while making disciples.\u00a0 If you believe that the ultimate purpose of a Christ-follower is to reach the lost,\u009d you still must glorify Jesus while reaching the lost.<\/p>\n<p>To glorify Jesus\u009d means to honor Him, above all else, in all things.\u00a0  Because in all things we must glorify Jesus, this is why worship matters<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We must give Him glory in all things &#8211; therefore we must worship Him in all things.\u00a0  <a title=\"Worship Matters | Why Worship Matters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worshipmatters.com\/2008\/05\/why-worship-matters\/\">Check out some more great responses to why worship matters.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 5px 5px 0;float:left;height:50px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/why-worship-matters\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"595\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I mentioned that I was of the winners of Bob Kauflin&#8217;s book giveaway. Here is my response to his question of &#8220;why worship matters:&#8221; What is the ultimate purpose of a follower of Jesus? Looking at each answer that might be given to that question, a common theme lingers: to glorify Him.\u00a0 If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-worship-leaders"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1477,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamanoffering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}