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Acts: We Go To Worship
May 10, 2026
Eric Burton
The Sycamore Church
Acts: We go to worship. When the church gets together.
Acts 2:43-46
We’re looking at the church in the book of Acts to see what they did that allowed them to have such an impact and how we line up with that church.
Intro:
We like going places. We like going out. “Do you want to go out with me” meant we are in an exclusive relationship.
Two things the first church did:
1. They went to the Temple daily to worship (giving to God).
2. They went to each other’s houses to receive the Lord's supper and share (giving to each other).
The church went to worship (giving to God).
We are living in a time and culture where you can’t distinguish staying in and going out. People wear the same stuff going out that they wear staying in. Nothing is significant anymore. We’ve eliminated the high-brow Sunday’s best so everyone feels welcome, but in removing the segregation, we’ve also lost the sacredness. We’ve lost the awe of going.
The first church continued going to the Temple after they were saved. You don’t stop going to church once you are saved.
When I was growing up, we got dressed up, got in your car, left where you lived, and went to a different location.
We first see this in Genesis 22:5 Abraham says to his servants, “You stay here while the boy and I go over there to worship.” It distinguished between where I am and where God is.
Worship is an intentional destination. We don’t worship from afar; we come from afar. When they worshiped God, they came to Him.
The wise men came to worship.
The leper came to worship.
The Roman soldier came to worship.
They left the dilemma they were in to go where the king resided.
Worship is an act of ascension and assembly to exalt God.
There are a number of Psalms called, Songs of Ascent that Jews would sing as they made the ascension into Jerusalem. Psalm 122:1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go to the house of the Lord. While the Jews were in captivity, they would request to go to Jerusalem to worship their God. They were asking to leave the rigors of bondage so they could ascend.
To worship you and I leave where we are and by design ascend to a higher plane.
Even the pagans would establish their idols and shrines on high places.
Satan brought Jesus to a high place to tempt him with power if He would worship him.
Even our thoughts are fighting for high position. We are to take captive every thought that exalts itself above God. Everything in our life is trying to gain higher ground so we will ascend to worship it rather than God.
1 Kings 12: 28-32
King Rehoboam was threatened by King Jeroboam. King Rehoboam didn’t want people going to Jerusalem to worship for fear that he would lose their allegiance. So he created new locations, idols, and invented a new holiday to keep them from going to Jerusalem. Going out meant we’re in an exclusive relationship, and he didn’t want that.
Worship has been reduced to an imitation of what we used to do.
The enemy doesn't want us actually going to worship because “ going out” means we’re in an exclusive relationship.
We are living in a day, just as they were, where distractions are vying for our attention to keep us from going to worship. Or people just don’t feel worthy to go up to God.
Worship indicates you’re not staying where you are but you’re going higher.
2. They went house to house (giving to each other)
To receive the Lord supper (break bread together)
To share
The church went house to house. This looked like our Connect Groups. You have to get up and go to fellowship.
Psalm 133 says, “How wonderful and precious it is when brothers live together in harmony! For harmony is as precious as the anointing oil…”
The result of the church ascending and gathering for worship and fellowship was people being added to the church daily.
Worship was meant to be given to God, and community was meant to be given to others.
When we assemble together in worship, we leave the mundane and encounter the miraculous.
It was while they were on the way to worship that they ran into a lame man that needed a miracle. We don’t see the miraculous because we don’t go anywhere.
Closing
Hebrews 10:22-25
Don’t forsake assembling as some do. Why? The day of His return is near.
Hebrews is letting us know there was a time you felt unworthy to go up and worship, but now, because of the blood of Jesus, we can go in with boldness. There’s nothing keeping us from going up today.
Somebody say, we’re going to worship!
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By Eric BurtonMay 10, 2026
Eric Burton
The Sycamore Church
Acts: We go to worship. When the church gets together.
Acts 2:43-46
We’re looking at the church in the book of Acts to see what they did that allowed them to have such an impact and how we line up with that church.
Intro:
We like going places. We like going out. “Do you want to go out with me” meant we are in an exclusive relationship.
Two things the first church did:
1. They went to the Temple daily to worship (giving to God).
2. They went to each other’s houses to receive the Lord's supper and share (giving to each other).
The church went to worship (giving to God).
We are living in a time and culture where you can’t distinguish staying in and going out. People wear the same stuff going out that they wear staying in. Nothing is significant anymore. We’ve eliminated the high-brow Sunday’s best so everyone feels welcome, but in removing the segregation, we’ve also lost the sacredness. We’ve lost the awe of going.
The first church continued going to the Temple after they were saved. You don’t stop going to church once you are saved.
When I was growing up, we got dressed up, got in your car, left where you lived, and went to a different location.
We first see this in Genesis 22:5 Abraham says to his servants, “You stay here while the boy and I go over there to worship.” It distinguished between where I am and where God is.
Worship is an intentional destination. We don’t worship from afar; we come from afar. When they worshiped God, they came to Him.
The wise men came to worship.
The leper came to worship.
The Roman soldier came to worship.
They left the dilemma they were in to go where the king resided.
Worship is an act of ascension and assembly to exalt God.
There are a number of Psalms called, Songs of Ascent that Jews would sing as they made the ascension into Jerusalem. Psalm 122:1 I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go to the house of the Lord. While the Jews were in captivity, they would request to go to Jerusalem to worship their God. They were asking to leave the rigors of bondage so they could ascend.
To worship you and I leave where we are and by design ascend to a higher plane.
Even the pagans would establish their idols and shrines on high places.
Satan brought Jesus to a high place to tempt him with power if He would worship him.
Even our thoughts are fighting for high position. We are to take captive every thought that exalts itself above God. Everything in our life is trying to gain higher ground so we will ascend to worship it rather than God.
1 Kings 12: 28-32
King Rehoboam was threatened by King Jeroboam. King Rehoboam didn’t want people going to Jerusalem to worship for fear that he would lose their allegiance. So he created new locations, idols, and invented a new holiday to keep them from going to Jerusalem. Going out meant we’re in an exclusive relationship, and he didn’t want that.
Worship has been reduced to an imitation of what we used to do.
The enemy doesn't want us actually going to worship because “ going out” means we’re in an exclusive relationship.
We are living in a day, just as they were, where distractions are vying for our attention to keep us from going to worship. Or people just don’t feel worthy to go up to God.
Worship indicates you’re not staying where you are but you’re going higher.
2. They went house to house (giving to each other)
To receive the Lord supper (break bread together)
To share
The church went house to house. This looked like our Connect Groups. You have to get up and go to fellowship.
Psalm 133 says, “How wonderful and precious it is when brothers live together in harmony! For harmony is as precious as the anointing oil…”
The result of the church ascending and gathering for worship and fellowship was people being added to the church daily.
Worship was meant to be given to God, and community was meant to be given to others.
When we assemble together in worship, we leave the mundane and encounter the miraculous.
It was while they were on the way to worship that they ran into a lame man that needed a miracle. We don’t see the miraculous because we don’t go anywhere.
Closing
Hebrews 10:22-25
Don’t forsake assembling as some do. Why? The day of His return is near.
Hebrews is letting us know there was a time you felt unworthy to go up and worship, but now, because of the blood of Jesus, we can go in with boldness. There’s nothing keeping us from going up today.
Somebody say, we’re going to worship!