What Is Worship? A Survey of Scripture Many Christian churches
have changed their worship styles. As is often the case with
experiences, we have different impressions and reactions to
worship styles. In this article, we examine what the Bible says
about worship. Let's look at the way God’s people worshiped
before Moses, after Moses, and after Jesus. Then let's see how
that biblical insight can help inform our worship in the modern
world. The Bible doesn’t give a formal definition of worship.
But perhaps we can start by seeing what various words for
worship mean. The English word "worship" comes from two Old
English words: weorth, which means "worth," and scipe or ship,
which means something like shape or "quality." We can see the
Old English word -ship in modern words like friendship and
sportsmanship – that’s the quality of being a friend, or the
quality of being a good sport. So worth-ship is the quality of
having worth or of being worthy. When we worship, we are saying
that God has worth, that he is worthy