Corporate Worship: How the Church Gathers as God’s People (Biblia.com)

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Sunday worship isn’t just about drawing near to God as an individual—it’s about praising God together with his people. Christians “worship” God at church every week, but many don’t know exactly what worship is or why they do it. For some, it’s a warm-up for the sermon. For others, worship is a “me-and-Jesus” moment. But what is the biblically informed way to view corporate worship? In this...

a geographical location and a physical structure but to a gathered people. This is why, in the old Scottish tradition, as the people gathered to enter a church building, it would be said that “the Kirk2 goes in” rather than, as we often say, “we are going to church.” The new covenant locus or place of the special presence of God with the church militant is in this gathered body, wherever it might be—whether in catacombs, or a storefront, or a beautiful colonial church building. This makes corporate

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