Worship with reverence and awe
Object:
A hymn book, offering basket, and a candle (objects
commonly used in your worship service)
Good morning! Today I have with me some things that may be
common to you. What is the purpose of this hymnal? (Let them
answer.) And this offering basket? ... Candle? These are things
we use here this morning in our worship service. Worship is
important to us because it brings us closer to God. Our God is a
wonderful, marvelous, awesome God. If we could see God in all of
God's glory, we could not even live. God is too wonderful and
powerful and magnificent for words.
Since God is so wonderful, we have special ways of showing