TRUE WORSHIPPERS

TRUE WORSHIPPERS

19 "Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem." 21 Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." 25 The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us." 26 Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he." John 4: 19-26

God is spirit.

Worship of God must be offered in spirit.

God deserves to be worshipped and he seeks to be worshipped.

God the Father seeks true worshippers.

True worship only emerges from and is offered by true worshippers.

God is Father.

True worshippers know God and know him as Father.

God the Father has revealed himself and his salvation, only through his true story with the Jews.

True worshippers are defined as recipients of salvation from the Father.

Worship is true only when it is directed to God who revealed himself through the story of the Jews.

Whereas worship was once associated with a city and a building and ritual, True Worship is not identified with specific geographic location or facility.

True worship is not chiefly defined by ritual, style, standard, posture, vocal, spoken, music, drama, reading, prayer or volume.

True worship has only two descriptors; it is in spirit and in truth. 

True worshippers are defined as those who worship in spirit and truth.

The Father's true story with the Jews projects the Messiah, who is Jesus, called Christ. He is the way, the truth and the life.

Bible translation brings the truth about God to indigenous people worldwide. Their forms of worship expression differ. Yet it is true worship, and they are true worshippers, if, they have subscribed by faith in Jesus who is presented through the Father's salvation story that began with Jews. Each nation, each people group, each generation will employ traditional or innovative preferences to express its worship of God, and it will qualify as true worship when it is in spirit and in truth, that is, when it tells the truth and nothing but the truth about God. They are then true worshippers.