SOME QUESTIONS & ANSWERS REGARDING WORSHIP 

 

Why Do We Clap Our Hands?“O Clap your hands all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.” (Psalms 47:1) 

 

Why Do We Lift Our Hands?“Thus I will bless Thee while I live; I will lift up my hands in Thy Name.” (Psalms 63:4)“Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless the Lord” (Psalms 143:2)“I will therefore that men pray everywhere.  Lifting up Holy hands, without wrath and doubting.” ( 1 Tim. 2:8)

 

Why Do We Have Audible Praise Unto God?“Bless the Lord, O my soul; and all that is within me bless His holy name” (Psalms 103:1)“After these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying, Alleluia; Salvation and glory and honor, and power unto the Lord our God?And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying Alleluia; for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.” (Rev. 19:1,6)“What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also. (1 Cor. 14:15) 

 

Why Do We Have This Type of Worship?“But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth for the Father such to worship Him.  God is a Spirit; and they that worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth.” (John 4:23-24)“For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh.” (Phil. 3:3) 

 

Why Do We Sing Choruses As Well As Hymns?“And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in Psalms and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord” (Col. 3:16-18) 

 

What is Prophecy?“?the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?”  (Amos 3:8)“But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort” (1 Cor 14:3) 

 

Why Do We Prophesy?“Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.” (1 Cor. 14:1)“But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal? To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy? (1 Cor. 14:3) 

 

Why Are Musical Instruments A Part of the Worship?“Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; praise Him with the psaltry and harp.  Praise Him with the timbrel and dance.  Praise Him with the stringed instruments and organs.  Praise Him upon the loud cymbals:  Praise Him upon the high sound symbols” (Psalms 150:3-5)“And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of a great many waters, and as the voice of great thunder:  and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps” (Rev. 14:2) 

 

Sometimes Many Members in the Church Pray At Once For Specific Needs, Why is that?“And when they heard that, they lifted us their voice with one accord, and said, “Lord, Thou art God, which hast made heaven and earth?” (Act 4:24).