WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE WORSHIP?

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JONATHAN LANDRY CRUSE

Many churchgoers assume that worship is inherently boring, something we need to make exciting. But as Jonathan Landry Cruse shows, churchgoing only seems monotonous and mundane because our eyes are blinded to the supernatural wonder that is taking place all around us.

In this book, Cruse helps us perceive the significance of worship and guides us through the spiritual actions of a worship service. Once you recognize how God is doing something to us and for us and through us in each element of the service, Lord’s Day worship will become the highlight of your week!

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Michael S. Horton
Part 1: Introduction
1. What Happens When We Worship?
Part 2: A Brief Theology of Worship
2. The Most Important Thing We Will Ever Do
3. We Are Being Shaped
4. We Meet with God
5. God Renews His Covenant
6. We Submit to God’s Agenda
7. We Commune with the Saints
Part 3: The Parts of the Service
8. God Calls Us
9. The Verdict Is Pronounced
10. Jesus Gets Up to Preach
11. God Feasts with Us
12. We Get a New Name
13. We Sing a New Song
Part 4: Conclusion
14. Extraordinarily ordinary Worship
15. Preparing for Worship

Endorsements

I am amazed at how much solid material Jonathan Cruse has managed to pack into these few pages of What Happens When We Worship! Each aspect I think of on this vital subject is addressed succinctly and with biblical fidelity. I love the questions for further discussion. They turn you from a mere intellectual student into a fellow participant in a quest for authentic God-glorifying worship. Read this book and you will increasingly put mind, heart and soul into your worship with renewed enthusiasm. – Conrad Mbewe , Pastor of Kabwata Baptist Church, Lusaka, Zambia

Jonathan Cruse gives us a fresh work that can help unite several generations in a recovery of regularly anticipating heaven on earth. This work is accessible to all, biblically informed, practically-oriented, and well-presented. I am happy to commend it and especially recommend the final sections on worship, rightly offered. We can only hope that the coming generation will heed this new and young voice-rooted in much more than his own limited experience. – David W. Hall , Sr. Pastor, Midway Presbyterian Church