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Made to Worship | Week 2 · Rewind

Rock Point Church

74 min

Pastor Bill Bush · Nov 4, 2018 · 4 min read · 74 min listen

The big idea

Quoting the message: I can't worship a God I don't know, end quote., so knowing Him through His Word and prayer is what makes real worship possible.

In this message

The big idea
Point 1 of 7The heart needs a soft surface to connect with God, or His presence just bounces off
Point 2 of 7David's longing in Psalm 42 shows worship is about connection, not location

Point 3 of 7Romans 12 calls us to offer our whole life, starting with how we think
Point 4 of 7Discipline and direction have to be connected, or worship falls apart
Point 5 of 7Scripture in 2 Timothy 3 shows exactly why God's Word matters: truth, correction, and equipping
Point 6 of 7A simple SOAP practice of Scripture, observation, application, and prayer builds the connection
Point 7 of 7What you build your Christian life on matters more than what it looks like on top
Take it into your week
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Scripture in this message

Colossians 1
Psalm 42
Psalm 42:1
Psalm 42:4
Psalm 42:5
Psalm 42:11

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Pastor Bill Bush · Nov 4, 2018 · 74 min watch · 2 min read

Made to Worship | Week 2

In this message

Big Idea
Key points
Application

Scripture in this message

Colossians 1
Psalm 42
Psalm 42:1
Psalm 42:4
Psalm 42:5
Psalm 42:11

Big Idea Key points Application

Big Idea

Quoting the message: I can't worship a God I don't know, end quote., so knowing Him through His Word and prayer is what makes real worship possible.

Worship isn't singing or showing up to church — it's connecting to God with your whole life, and that connection only happens when you actually know Him. Pastor Bill shows that daily time in Scripture and prayer is what transforms the heart so it can receive God's love, rather than bounce off it.

Key points

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1The heart needs a soft surface to connect with God, or His presence just bounces off
Pastor Bill opens with a story about his son's Velcro dart gun, explaining that Velcro only sticks when hooks meet loops. He applies this to the spiritual life: when God tries to move in our lives, it can't stick unless our heart has the right surface to receive it.
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2David's longing in Psalm 42 shows worship is about connection, not location
Pastor Bill walks through Psalm 42, where David, cut off from the temple and pursued by Saul, cries out that he thirsts for God like a deer for water. David asks why he is so discouraged, then answers his own question by choosing to remember and praise God anyway, showing that worship isn't tied to a building.
3
3Romans 12 calls us to offer our whole life, starting with how we think
Pastor Bill reads Romans 12:1-2 and stresses that Paul pleads with believers to give their bodies as a living sacrifice, not copying the mold of the world but being transformed by renewing the mind. He explains the Greek sense of seeing life from God's point of view rather than our own, using a doctor/patient illustration where healing comes from trusting the doctor's perspective, not self-effort.
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4Discipline and direction have to be connected, or worship falls apart
Pastor Bill explains that discipline without direction becomes drudgery, while direction without discipline is just daydreaming, illustrated by his wife's shift from hating workouts to loving them once she understood the why, and by his son wanting to be a pitcher without ever practicing. He ties the word discipline to disciple, arguing you cannot have one without the other.
5
5Scripture in 2 Timothy 3 shows exactly why God's Word matters: truth, correction, and equipping
Pastor Bill walks through 2 Timothy 3:16-17, unpacking how Scripture teaches what is true, shows what's wrong, corrects us, and equips us for the good works God made us for. He warns against picking and choosing which parts of the Bible to accept, saying that even rejecting one percent of it makes you, not God, the authority.
6
6A simple SOAP practice of Scripture, observation, application, and prayer builds the connection
Pastor Bill introduces SOAP as a practical way to build a daily habit of Scripture reading, observation, application, and prayer, pointing to church resources and the upcoming Ugly Sweater series through the book of John. He ties this to Isaiah 40 and Psalm 42, noting that time in the Word and prayer brings strength, wisdom, and peace of mind.
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7What you build your Christian life on matters more than what it looks like on top
Pastor Bill tells a house-flipping show story about a beautiful house sitting on a foundation of loose stacked stones instead of solid rock, which inevitably falls apart. He connects this to Jesus' parable of building on rock versus sand, asking listeners what their spiritual life is really resting on when the storms come.

A story from life

Pastor Bill's son shooting Velcro darts at everything except the target

Application

Pastor Bill's plea is that connecting with Jesus daily through His Word and prayer is what actually changes you, so the question is simply: will you?

Start a daily SOAP practice
Pick a time each day to read Scripture, observe what it means, apply it to your life, and pray it back to God — use the church's devotional resources if you need a starting point.
Connect discipline to direction
Don't just add Bible reading as a guilt-driven task; remember why you're doing it, that God is equipping you for the mission He made you for, so the discipline has purpose.
Stop picking and choosing what Scripture you'll accept
Accept all of God's Word as authority over your life rather than rejecting the parts you don't like, which really just makes you your own authority.
Examine your foundation, not just what's built on top
Ask honestly what your Christian life is resting on — church attendance and serving, or real daily time with God — before the next storm hits.
Answer the question: will you?
Stand in that moment like David did in Psalm 42 and choose to remember God and build your life on His love, starting this week.

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Scripture in this message

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“What we looked at was in Colossians chapter one, where it says the immensity of who Jesus is, and we have to realize that Jesus made us”
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“I want to start off in a Psalm again, just like I did last week. We're gonna be in a Psalm. Psalm 42. Psalms two. Psalms right in the middle of your Bible”
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“here it goes. It starts off. It says in verse one, as the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, o God”
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“He says in verse four, my heart is breaking as I remember how it used to be. You ever do that when you're really sad”
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“But verse five, he goes, why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? Now he's saying this because he is kinda discouraged, but he's also answering the question”
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“If you go to verse 11, it repeats this again. In in Hebrew poetry, anything's repeated is really the point”
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“at the very end of chapter 11, it says this, for everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. That's the whole purpose of this series”
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“So then in chapter 12, it says, here's what we need to do to start embracing this. Here's how you connect to God”
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“Look what he says. And so, brothers and sisters, I plead with you. He's pleading. He's talking to believers”
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“He says in verse two, he explains. He goes, don't copy the behavior and the customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person”
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“This is one of my favorite passage I go to whenever I'm discouraged. Whenever I sit there, I try to sit there and I read through this. I pray through second Timothy chapter three”
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“he says this in in verse 16. Sixteen, seventeen. He says, all scripture, the word of God, is inspired by God and is useful. Here's the why. Here's the direction, guys”
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“It says in that Psalms passage, and in Isaiah 40, that worship renews our strength. It says right here that the word of God is where we get wisdom”
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“The will of God, Romans 12. It says that prayer, all through scripture says, bring your prayers and petitions”
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“what David did in Psalms 42, prayer brings us peace of mind. Because we can talk to God about the truth of God through the love of God”

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7-day devotional

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Day 1

The sermon opened with a claim that cuts right to the heart of everything: you were made by God and for God. That is not a motivational phrase — it is a statement about reality. Colossians 1 grounds this in the person of Jesus, declaring that all things were created through Him and for Him. Everything comes from Him, exists by His power, and is intended for His glory. That includes you. Before you had a job title, a family role, or a personal history, you had a purpose: to belong to the One who made you. This is the foundation the sermon kept returning to — not as a guilt trip, but as an invitation to stop building your life on something smaller than it was designed for. When life feels unstable or empty, one honest question worth sitting with is whether the foundation is actually in place. Not 'Am I doing enough Christian things?' but 'Am I living as someone who was made by God and for God?' That question is not meant to discourage you. It is meant to orient you. You are not an accident, and your life is not a problem to be managed. You are a person with a Maker — and that Maker wants to be known by you.

For reflection

In what area of your daily life do you most easily forget that you were made by God and for God — and what might it look like to let that truth take root there?

Pray

Pray for a fresh sense of who you were made by and made for — ask God to make that truth feel real, not just correct.

Day 2

The pastor pointed to Psalm 42 not as a song about someone who had it all together, but as a cry from someone who felt spiritually dry and far from the worship he longed for. 'As the deer longs for streams of water, so I long for You, O God.' This is honest. This is real. And the fact that it is in Scripture tells us that longing, aching, and even discouragement are not signs that faith has failed — they can actually be signs that it is alive. The psalmist remembers what it felt like to be close to God and grieves that it feels distant now. Then in verse five he does something remarkable: he talks to himself. 'Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God!' He does not deny the feeling. He does not perform a cheerfulness he does not have. He preaches truth to his own heart. The sermon's call to daily time in God's Word and prayer connects directly here. The longing the psalmist describes is not something to be ashamed of — it is something to be fed. Dry seasons are real. But the stream has not moved; the question is whether we are showing up at the water.

For reflection

When your spiritual life has felt dry or distant, what has that looked like practically — and have you ever tried honestly naming it to God the way the psalmist does here?

Pray

Pray about whatever spiritual dryness or longing you are carrying right now — bring the honest version to God, not a polished one.

Day 3

The word 'plead' is interesting. The apostle Paul did not command the Roman believers from a position of superiority — he pleaded with them as brothers and sisters. He appealed to what God had already done, all the mercies poured out on them, and said: in light of all of that, here is the fitting response. Give your bodies — your actual, physical, day-to-day lives — to God as a living sacrifice. The sermon unpacked why the word 'living' matters. In the Old Testament, a sacrifice was brought to the altar and it stayed there. A living sacrifice, though, can walk away. It can climb back down. That tension is part of what makes this such a real and honest call. Worship is not a single moment of surrender you make once. It is a daily decision to stay on the altar — to let your time, your energy, your habits, and your attention belong to God rather than drift back to whatever is most comfortable or urgent. This is not about performing for God. It is about aligning with what you were already made for. The sermon was clear: this kind of worship is not primarily about what happens on a Sunday morning. It is about Monday through Saturday, in ordinary moments, with ordinary choices.

For reflection

What does 'climbing back off the altar' look like in your own life — what tends to pull your daily attention and energy away from living for God?

Pray

Pray for the willingness to stay — to offer your actual life, not just a Sunday version of it, as an act of worship this week.

Day 4

The sermon landed hard on this verse — and for good reason. 'Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.' Two things are happening at once: a warning and a promise. The warning is that the world has a mold, and if you are not actively being renewed, you will passively be shaped. The promise is that transformation is actually possible — not through willpower or self-improvement, but through the renewing of your mind. The sermon was careful here: this is not about accumulating Bible information. It is about letting the Word of God go through you — sitting with it, observing what it actually says, asking how it applies to your real life, and bringing it into prayer. That is what the SOAP method the pastor mentioned is designed to help with. It is not a magic formula. It is a way of slowing down long enough for Scripture to do its work. Here is what this means practically: the strength, wisdom, and peace you are already looking for are most reliably found not in better circumstances, but in a renewed mind. And a renewed mind is built in the quiet, daily, unglamorous habit of showing up to God's Word.

For reflection

When you read Scripture, do you tend to read for information or for transformation — and what might it look like to approach it differently?

Pray

Pray for a mind that is genuinely open to being changed — ask God to make His Word feel alive and personally relevant, not just historically interesting.

Day 5

The sermon pointed to this passage as the reason daily time in Scripture is not optional maintenance — it is the primary way God equips people for the life He has called them to. All Scripture is inspired by God. The word behind 'inspired' literally means 'breathed out' — this is not just a collection of human wisdom about spiritual things. It is God's own communication to you. And it is useful: for teaching what is true, for exposing what is wrong, for correcting our course, and for training us toward righteousness. Notice the scope of that. Every part of the Word has a function. The parts that challenge you are useful. The parts that confuse you are useful. The parts you have skimmed over before are useful. The pastor's point in the sermon was not that reading the Bible earns you points with God. It is that the thing you are already hungry for — direction, stability, clarity, peace — is found in this book, because this book is God's actual voice. To treat it as optional is, practically speaking, to cut yourself off from the primary means God uses to strengthen and guide you. That is not a scare tactic. It is just an honest description of what you stand to gain by showing up.

For reflection

Is there a part of Scripture you have avoided or found confusing — and what might it look like to bring that honest uncertainty to God rather than stepping around it?

Pray

Pray for a growing trust that all of Scripture — even the hard parts — is God's voice worth engaging with.

Day 6

The sermon cited Isaiah 40 in connection with the strength, wisdom, and peace that come from waiting on God. This passage addresses people who are tired — not lazy, but genuinely worn out. People who feel like God has not noticed their situation. The prophet's answer is not a pep talk. It is a reminder of who God is: the everlasting God, the Creator, who does not grow weary and whose understanding no one can fathom. And then comes the promise: those who wait on the Lord — who stay connected to Him, who keep returning to Him — will find their strength renewed. The sermon's call to daily time in the Word and prayer is not about adding one more obligation to an already exhausted life. It is about connecting to the only Source that actually replenishes what daily life drains. The image of soaring on wings like eagles is not describing a feeling of religious excitement. It is describing a person whose inner resources are renewed from outside themselves. You cannot manufacture that on your own. The sermon was honest about this: the very strength you need to make time for God is the strength you gain from making time for God. That is not a riddle. It is an invitation to take the first step.

For reflection

Where in your life right now do you feel most depleted — and what would it mean to bring that specific exhaustion to God rather than pushing through it alone?

Pray

Pray about the area where you most need your strength renewed — ask God to meet you there as you commit to showing up to His Word this week.

Day 7

The sermon began and ended with the same bedrock truth: you were made by God and for God. Everything else — the call to be a living sacrifice, the renewal of your mind, the daily habit of Scripture and prayer — flows from that one conviction. As you close this week, it is worth asking not just 'What did I learn?' but 'What is actually different?' The pastor's appeal was not for people to feel more convicted or more religious. It was for people to stop treating their personal connection with God as something they will get to eventually, and start treating it as the foundation everything else is built on. Coming to church matters. Serving in community matters. Generosity matters. But none of those things can substitute for the daily, personal, renewing encounter with God that makes the rest of life coherent. Direction without discipline, the sermon reminded us, is just daydreaming. So the question at the end of this week is simple and practical: do you have a time? A place? A way of showing up? You do not need a perfect method. You need a real commitment, made not out of guilt but out of genuine hunger — the same hunger the psalmist described in Psalm 42. That hunger is a good sign. Feed it.

For reflection

Looking back over this week, what is one concrete, specific change you want to make to how you engage with God's Word and prayer going forward?

Pray

Pray for the follow-through to actually do the thing — ask God for the desire, the discipline, and the daily reminder that He is worth showing up for.

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Open

This message makes a bold claim: worship is far bigger than singing — it is the whole shape of a life oriented toward the God who made us and calls us back to Himself.

Discussion questions

1
In Colossians 1, Paul writes that everything comes from God, exists by His power, and is intended for His glory. What does that say about what worship is actually supposed to look like — day in and day out?
2
In Psalm 42, the writer is cut off from the place where he used to meet with God, and yet he keeps turning his longing back toward God. What does his response tell us about where real worship is rooted?
3
Romans 12:1-2 pictures offering your body as a living sacrifice and having your mind transformed rather than being 'poured into the world's mold.' What is the difference between those two directions — transformation versus conformity — and why does it matter for everyday life?
4
Second Timothy 3:16-17 says Scripture is useful to teach truth, expose what is wrong, correct us, and equip us for every good work. How might those four purposes change the way people approach reading the Bible — from something they check off to something that actually shapes them?
5
The message drew a contrast between direction and discipline — noting that direction without discipline is just daydreaming, and that 'disciple' is the root of 'discipline.' What does that connection suggest about what it actually takes to grow in following Jesus?
6
The pastor challenged everyone to treat daily time in Scripture and prayer not as an obligation but as the very place where we find the strength, wisdom, and peace we are already hungry for. How might a community like ours help each other stay rooted in that kind of rhythm — not out of guilt, but out of genuine hunger?

Pray together

Ask God to give your group a fresh hunger for His Word and for the kind of mind-transformation that only He can produce — that each person would show up to that daily meeting with Him not out of duty, but out of a deepening trust that He is what they were made for.

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