One of the elements of this definition of Christian worship is response… meaning, Christians do not initiate worship, but they respond to an invitation from God. In John 4:23, Jesus teaches that the Father is the one seeking worshipers. Jesus says to the woman at the well “Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.”– the Father is the one inviting them to worship the one true living God, and this invitation is done through God’s self-revelation to His people. Throughout Scripture, we learn that the Lord has revealed himself to his people through creation, divine speech, appearances, Scripture, the person of Jesus Christ, and his Holy Spirit.[i] and today, the Triune God reveals his character, his plan of salvation, and his transformational teachings through Scripture. It is through the Word of God that he invites his people to behold his majesty and to worship him in truth. Allen Ross says in Recalling the Hope of Glory , “the greater our appreciation and apprehension of the majestic God who we say we worship, the greater will be our reverence, adoration, and service.”[ii] When God reveals himself, his redeemed people respond with their affections and actions to who God is and what he has done.

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