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Made to Worship | Week 3 · Rewind

Rock Point Church

73 min

Pastor Bill Bush · Nov 12, 2018 · 5 min read · 73 min listen

The big idea

Public worship is for both God's glory and our good — we gather not because we have to, but because we get to, since Jesus tore the curtain that once separated us from God.

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The big idea
Point 1 of 7Worship is something we are, not just something we do
Point 2 of 7A story about goofing off in a Sunday night service taught him worship is also about the testimony we give to others

Point 3 of 7Public worship is for God's glory and our good — and both matter
Point 4 of 7Hebrews 10 shows we can now boldly enter God's presence because of Jesus' blood
Point 5 of 7Coming together to worship motivates us to love, good works, and mutual encouragement
Point 6 of 7Worship is like a show, but with the roles rightly understood — we are the prompters, the congregation are the performers, and Jesus is the audience
Point 7 of 7Engaging in worship is like singing at a birthday party — the depth of our participation reflects the depth of our relationship with the one being honored
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Scripture in this message

Hebrews 10
Hebrews 10:19
Hebrews 10:24
Psalm 119
Psalm 19:1

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Pastor Bill Bush · Nov 12, 2018 · 73 min watch · 3 min read

Made to Worship | Week 3

In this message

Big Idea
Key points
Application

Scripture in this message

Hebrews 10
Hebrews 10:19
Hebrews 10:24
Psalm 119
Psalm 19:1

Big Idea Key points Application

Big Idea

Public worship is for both God's glory and our good — we gather not because we have to, but because we get to, since Jesus tore the curtain that once separated us from God.

Because of Jesus' blood, we're no longer shut out of God's presence like Old Testament worshippers were — we get to come boldly into the Holy of Holies. Gathering together to praise Him isn't a checklist to appease an angry God or a performance about our own preferences; it's the natural response of people who see how great the gap was between us and God, and how completely Jesus closed it.

Key points

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1Worship is something we are, not just something we do
Pastor Bill recalls becoming a believer in high school and embracing that he was made by and for God, but admits he didn't yet understand what that meant when it came to actually gathering with the church.
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2A story about goofing off in a Sunday night service taught him worship is also about the testimony we give to others
He tells about disliking the preacher and songs one Sunday night, playing a distracting game with friends, and getting quietly confronted by an older church lady who told him he'd ruined the service for others. He realized showing up and engaging isn't just for God or for himself, but is also a testimony to the new people who are always in the room.
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3Public worship is for God's glory and our good — and both matter
He warns that emphasizing only God's glory turns worship into a legalistic ritual to appease an angry God, while emphasizing only our good turns it into a consumer experience centered on personal preference. Scripture holds both together.
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4Hebrews 10 shows we can now boldly enter God's presence because of Jesus' blood
He walks through the temple's Holy of Holies, the thick curtain, and the high priest who risked death entering once a year, explaining that the gap was intentional so we'd feel the distance between God's majesty and our sinfulness. Jesus' death tore that curtain top to bottom, opening permanent access.
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5Coming together to worship motivates us to love, good works, and mutual encouragement
He points to the second half of the Hebrews passage, showing that holding to our hope and not neglecting meeting together transforms us — the corporate praise, teaching, and encouragement produce good works, which is why gathering benefits us even as it glorifies God.
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6Worship is like a show, but with the roles rightly understood — we are the prompters, the congregation are the performers, and Jesus is the audience
Drawing on a conversation with worship pastor Sean, he explains that people get uncomfortable calling church a 'show' because they assume the wrong roles; in reality the platform team are tour guides pointing to Jesus, everyone in the room is the performer/choir, and God alone is the audience it's for.
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7Engaging in worship is like singing at a birthday party — the depth of our participation reflects the depth of our relationship with the one being honored
He compares half-hearted singers at church to someone standing silent at a birthday party, arguing that we sing 'Happy Birthday' not because we love the song but because we love the person. He extends this with a Veterans Day illustration of pushing a wheelchair-bound friend who lost his legs saving your life, asking who would sing loudest at that party — showing that seeing the depth of Jesus' sacrifice produces wholehearted worship, not guilt-driven duty.

Application

Pastor Bill frames it as showing up to Jesus' party not because you should or have to, but because you get to.

See worship as identity, not obligation
Stop treating church attendance as a checklist to appease God, and start embracing that you were made by and for God — worship is who you are, not a task you complete.
Engage for the sake of those watching
Recognize that new people are in the room every single service; how you sing and participate is part of the testimony they see about how much God matters to you.
Reflect during communion on what's distracting you
As you take the bread and cup, do a self-check — ask what's going on in your heart that keeps you from engaging, and bring that distraction honestly before God.
Let seeing the love produce the singing
Don't guilt yourself into participating; instead ask why you resist engaging, and choose to see the depth of Jesus' sacrifice until worship flows naturally, like singing loudest at the party of someone who gave everything for you.

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Scripture in this message

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“Hebrews chapter 10. If you have your Bibles, Hebrews is is way to the right. It's almost near the end”
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“in chapter verse 19 of chapter 10, he starts describing this call to persevere, and part of that perseverance is to worship”
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“In verse 24, let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works. And let us not neglect our meeting together as some people do, but encourage one another”
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“In Psalms one nineteen, it says, your word I have hid in my heart that I might not sin against you”
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“the Bible says that, the heavens declare the glory of God, the firmament shows his handiwork. And day into day, they're uttering speech, and night into night, they're showing knowledge”

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7-day devotional

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Day 1

There is a moment in the Gospel accounts that is easy to read past: the moment Jesus breathes His last, and the curtain of the temple tears in two — not from the bottom up, as a person might rip it, but from the top down. God tore it. That detail matters enormously. For centuries, only the high priest could enter the Holy of Holies, and only once a year, with blood that was not his own. The curtain was not a decoration. It was a barrier, a reminder that sinful people cannot simply walk into the presence of a holy God. And then Jesus died, and the barrier was gone. Hebrews 10:19-22 names what that moment opened: 'we can boldly enter heaven's Most Holy Place because of the blood of Jesus.' Not nervously. Not provisionally. Boldly. The invitation into God's presence was not earned by anything you brought — your track record, your performance, your religious effort. It was purchased at an enormous cost, freely given to you. Before you think about what worship asks of you, sit with what it offers you: a wide-open door into the presence of God Himself, held open by Jesus.

For reflection

When you think about approaching God — in prayer, in worship, in your private moments — do you come boldly, or do you still feel like you need to earn your way in? What might it look like to actually take Jesus at His word here?

Pray

Pray for a fresh, personal sense of what it means that the curtain has been torn — that the access Jesus purchased is yours right now.

Day 2

It would be easy to read Hebrews 10:24-25 as a guilt trip about church attendance — a divine roll call you had better not miss. But read it in context and something warmer comes into focus. The writer has just finished marveling at the access Jesus purchased. He has just said: draw near, hold fast, consider one another. The instruction not to neglect gathering is nestled inside a passage about a community of people who have been given something extraordinary together. The phrase 'spur one another on' is vivid — it pictures people actively encouraging each other toward love and good works, not sitting in rows consuming a service. Corporate worship, in this view, is not a transaction between you and a stage. It is a gathering of people who share the same astonishing news, and who need each other to keep living like it is true. When you show up, you are not just receiving — you are also part of what someone else receives. Your presence, your voice, your engagement, your willingness to be seen trusting God — all of it becomes part of how God encourages the person sitting near you. The community is part of the gift.

For reflection

Is there someone in your church community whose consistent presence has quietly encouraged your own faith? What might it mean to think of your own presence as doing the same for someone else?

Pray

Pray for the people you worship with — that your shared gathering would genuinely stir love and good works in each of you.

Day 3

The sermon noted that God commands singing praise over 50 times in Scripture — and that the book of Psalms exists so His people can remember and recall His worthiness in every circumstance. That is a remarkable thing to say about a hymnal. Psalm 19 opens with one of the most expansive images in all of Scripture: 'The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display His craftsmanship.' Before any instrument plays, before any voice lifts, the created order is already in the middle of an unending worship service. The stars are not silent. The sky is not neutral. Everything God made is, in a sense, doing what it was made to do — pointing back to its Maker. Which raises a quiet, personal question: what were you made to do? The sermon's answer is clear — you were made to be a worshiper. Not because God needs your applause, but because you were designed to live in the kind of orientation toward God that worship expresses. When you engage in corporate worship, you are not performing a religious duty. You are becoming, slowly and truly, the person you were always meant to be.

For reflection

Where in your ordinary life — outside of a Sunday gathering — do you notice the glory of God? What happens inside you when you do?

Pray

Pray for eyes to see God's glory in the created world around you this week, and for that sight to spill over into genuine praise.

Day 4

The sermon pointed to Psalm 119:11 — 'I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you' — in the context of why God gave His people the Psalms: so they could remember His worthiness when circumstances make it hard to feel it. That is a deeply practical gift. Worship is not always easy. Some Sundays you arrive carrying weight that makes singing feel hollow, or praise feel distant. The Psalms were written by people who knew that experience from the inside. They wrote laments, cries of confusion, prayers that border on argument. And they kept writing them down, kept singing them, because the act of recalling God's word and God's character is itself an act of faith. Hiding the Word in your heart is not about memorizing verses as insurance. It is about building a kind of inner library that you can walk into when the lights go out — a place where you already know who God is, what He has done, and why He is worthy, before your feelings have a chance to vote. Consistent engagement with Scripture, privately and corporately, is how that library gets built.

For reflection

Is there a passage of Scripture — a promise, a description of God's character, a story of His faithfulness — that has become a kind of anchor for you in hard seasons? If not, what might it look like to begin building that?

Pray

Pray for a growing love for Scripture — not as a discipline to complete, but as a place to meet God and remember who He is.

Day 5

The sermon drew a clear line between two distortions of worship: treating it as a checklist to appease an angry God, or treating it as a consumer experience shaped entirely by personal preference. Both miss the point, but they miss it in opposite directions. One makes worship about avoiding punishment. The other makes worship about personal satisfaction. Neither puts God at the center. Hebrews 10:23 sits quietly between the more-quoted verses around it: 'Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep His promise.' The anchor of worship is not the quality of the music, the length of the sermon, or whether you felt something. It is the trustworthiness of God. When worship feels flat, or unfamiliar, or inconvenient, the question underneath is not 'is this the worship style I prefer?' but 'is God still who He said He is?' The sermon's invitation is to come back to that center — to ask honestly whether you approach Sunday as something you have to do, or something you get to do, and to let the answer reveal something real about where your heart actually is.

For reflection

What tends to shape your experience of corporate worship most — how it makes you feel, whether it meets your expectations, or the reality of who God is? What would it look like to let the third thing lead?

Pray

Pray for honesty about your own approach to worship — and for a genuine desire to center it on God's glory rather than your own comfort.

Day 6

Related passage

The sermon placed communion at the center of its closing movement — describing it as a moment to reflect on the gap between us and God, remember what Jesus did to fill it, and respond not out of obligation but out of love. First Corinthians 11:23-26 gives the earliest written account of the Lord's Supper, and the language Paul uses is careful: 'Do this to remember me.' The table is not magic, and it is not merely symbolic. It is a regular, embodied act of memory and proclamation. 'You proclaim the Lord's death until He comes,' Paul writes. Every time the church gathers around bread and cup, it is making a public statement about what it believes and why. That is worth sitting with. Communion is not a private moment you happen to have in a room full of people. It is a corporate act of testimony — the whole gathered community saying together: this happened, it matters, and we are here because of it. If worship can sometimes feel routine, the table is an invitation to let the weight of what it represents land again. The bread and the cup are not abstractions. They point to a body broken and blood poured out — for you, and for the person next to you.

For reflection

When you take communion, what are you actually thinking about? Is there a part of what Jesus did — the cost of it, the love behind it — that you have not let yourself fully feel?

Pray

Pray for a heart that comes to the communion table with genuine reflection — not rushing through, but pausing long enough to let the cross be real.

Day 7

Looking back over this week, a single thread runs through every passage: an invitation. The curtain is torn — come in. The community is gathering — bring yourself. The Word is there to be hidden in your heart — let it take root. The heavens are declaring glory — add your voice. The table is set — remember and be changed. Corporate worship is not a performance you attend or a duty you discharge. It is the whole shape of a life that has grasped what Jesus actually did. The sermon's closing challenge was not a guilt trip — it was almost an excited announcement: when you truly see the love behind the cross, you won't need to be told to go all in. That is the destination this devotional has been pointing toward all week. Not a better worship habit, but a deeper vision of Jesus — one that makes praise feel less like an obligation and more like the only honest response. If something this week stirred a question, a longing, or a desire to go deeper in community, that is worth following. Talk to someone at Rock Point. Don't let it stay just a feeling.

For reflection

Looking back at this week, what is one thing that shifted — even slightly — in how you understand or approach corporate worship? What would it look like to carry that forward?

Pray

Pray for a worship life — Sunday and every other day — that flows from a genuine, growing understanding of what Jesus gave, and who He is.

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Open

Think about a party or celebration you were genuinely excited to attend — one where you couldn't wait to show up. This message invites us to consider what it would look like to bring that same energy to corporate worship, and why the cross is the reason we can.

Discussion questions

1
In Hebrews 10:19-22, the writer says we can enter God's presence boldly because of Jesus' blood. What does that image — a curtain torn open — tell us about what kind of access Jesus purchased for us?
2
The message described two ways people can get corporate worship wrong: treating it as a ritual to appease God, or as a personal preference checklist. What do you think each of those looks like in practice — and what does the message say is missing from both of them?
3
The message offered this image: in corporate worship, everyone in the room is a performer and God is the audience, with leaders acting as tour guides pointing people to Jesus. How does that reframe the way we think about what's happening when we gather?
4
Hebrews 10:24-25 connects gathering together with being motivated toward love and good works. What's the link the writer seems to be making between showing up with one another and how we live the rest of the week?
5
The message pointed out that God commands singing praise more than 50 times in Scripture, and that the Psalms exist so His people can recall His worthiness in every kind of circumstance. What does that suggest about what praise is actually for — and what it does in us?
6
The message connected the depth of our engagement in worship directly to how well we understand what Jesus' sacrifice cost Him. As you think about the communion table, how might sitting with that cost — really sitting with it — change the way people approach worship over time?

Pray together

Gratitude for the torn curtain — and openness to experiencing worship as an invitation rather than an obligation

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