Talk:Service of worship

Ministry, or work, that is sacred, being directly related to one’s worship of God.

The Hebrew term `a·vadh´ basically means “serve” (Ge 14:4; 15:13; 29:15) or “labor” (Ex 34:21) and is also rendered “cultivate.” (Ge 4:12; De 28:39) When used with reference to service rendered to Jehovah or to false deities, `a·vadh´ implies worship, or sacred service. (Ex 10:26; De 11:16) Similarly, the Greek verb la·treu´o denotes serving. It is used in regard to serving God (Mt 4:10; Lu 1:74; 2:37; 4:8; Ac 7:7; Ro 1:9; Php 3:3; 2Ti 1:3; Heb 9:14; 12:28; Re 7:15; 22:3), as was done at the sanctuary or temple (Heb 8:5; 9:9; 10:2; 13:10), and also in connection with false worship, rendering service to created things. (Ac 7:42; Ro 1:25) In the Christian Greek Scriptures the noun la·trei´a appears solely with reference to serving God. (Joh 16:2; Ro 9:4; 12:1; Heb 9:1, 6) It differs from the Greek di·a·ko·ni´a, which also means “ministry, service,” but which is used in connection with common, ordinary, mundane things—things that are not sacred.

The only One to whom worship, or sacred service, can be rightly directed is Jehovah God. (Mt 4:10; Lu 4:8) On account of their special covenant relationship with Jehovah God, the privilege of rendering sacred service as spirit-begotten sons of God and members of “a royal priesthood” should have gone to the Jews. But the majority lost out because of their failure to exercise faith in Christ Jesus. (Ro 9:3-5, 30-33; 1Pe 2:4-10) Many, like the Pharisee Saul before his becoming a Christian, imagined that they were actually rendering sacred service to God by persecuting Christ’s followers.—Joh 16:2; Ac 26:9-11; Ga 1:13, 14.

Protestant only?
I don't think "service of worship" is exclusively Protestant. Certainly Jews refer to their worship meetings as "services" too. Angr/talk 18:09, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
 * This is true. I'm updating the article to reflect that.--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 18:12, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Redirect?
This page definitely should not redirect to the article on Christian church services; while English Wikipedia users are likely most commonly Christians (statistically, based on demographics in general), "Service of Worship" doesn't necessarily imply a Christian service- just any service in which some religious (or potentially irreligious, really) entity is worshiped.

The previous article was indeed mostly Christianity-centred, but this was- in my opinion- an error in that article. I was linked here in the context of multifaith worship services from Multifaith Space and redirected to the Christian version, which is kind of contradictory.

This page would best be reinstated as a separate page about worship ceremonies in general, rather than primarily Christian services. Hppavilion1 (talk) 01:20, 1 December 2016 (UTC)