Worldview Wednesday: God's Words to Us

We are made to worship, and that it why we hold worship services at Brooklyn Baptist Church. It’s good to remember that our mode or worship, our order or service, and the songs we sing are meant to worship, and not to entertain. As we seek to worship the one living and true God, how do we know we are worshipping Him—maybe we are worshipping a false god created in our own image? The only way we can stay true to the living and true God is through the special communication that He gave us. We call it “special revelation” in contrast to “general revelation,” which is how God reveals Himself in nature.

As we’ve studied Martin Luther and the Reformers extensively in the last few months of church history, the issue we are always coming back to the authority of God’s Word. The Scriptures are nothing less than God’s authoritative communication to us. That’s why our method for Sundays is to read the Word, sing the Word, pray the Word, and preach the Word.

In the introduction to 2 Corinthians, we saw that Paul speaks of the God Who is There and what that means for us. Because God is there, we can forgive, we can serve, we don’t have to be first. Francis Schaeffer has a book called The God Who Is There and another book called He is There and He is Not Silent. This is a classic that will soon be available in the church library. Francis Schaeffer engages Christianity in the 70s when large numbers of young people were losing their faith. He shows the consistency and reliablity of the Christian worldview and concludes with an explanation of biblical revelation and its role in reason and faith.

When you come to church this Sunday, come ready to worship the true and living God and hear His words given to us. Those have been preserved and given to us by the sacrifice of all the people before us. Martin Luther did what he did so you could hear God’s Word in your own language this Sunday. Let’s hear those words, obey those words, and steward what we’ve been given.