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Beliefs
WHY DO WE STAND TO SING?
And the Levites, of the children of the Korhites...stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel with a loud voice on high. (II Chronicles 20:19)
After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb. (Revelation 7:9,10)
WHY DO WE LIFT OUR HANDS?
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name. (Psalm 63:4)
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord. (Psalm 134:2)
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting. ( 1 Timothy 2:8)
WHY DO WE CLAP OUR HANDS?
O CLAP your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph. (Psalm 47:1)
WHY DO WE DANCE BEFORE THE LORD?
Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. (Psalm 149:3)
Praise him with the timbrel and dance:...(Psalm 150:4)
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. (Exodus 15:20)
And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart. (II Samuel 6:16).
WHY DO WE HAVE THIS TYPE OF WORSHIP?
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. (John 4:23,24)
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. (Philippians 3:3)
WHY DO WE SING HYMNS AND CHORUSES?
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; (Ephesians 5:19)
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. (Colossians 3:16)
WHY DO WE PRAY TOGETHER?
Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 18:19)
And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. (Luke 1:10)
And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: (Acts 4:24)
WHY DO WE PRAY ALOUD?
My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. (Psalm 5:3)
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice. (Psalm 55:17)
WHY ARE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS A PART OF OUR WORSHIP?
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. (Psalms 150: 3-5)
And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: (Revelation 14:2)
WHY DO WE SING IN TONGUES AND ENGLISH?
For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. What is it then?
I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also. (1 Corinthians 14:14-15)
WHY DO WE HAVE SPEAKING IN TONGUES AND INTERPRETATION OF THOSE TONGUES?
Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues. (1 Corinthians 14:39)
To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: (1 Corinthians 12:10)
How is it then, brethren? when ye come together,...every one of you hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying. If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret. ( 1 Corinthians 14: 26,27)
WHAT IS PROPHECY?
Prophecy in the Bible does not concern itself primarily with foretelling future event, in the sense in which one speaks of a weather prophet or a financial forecaster. It deals rather with forthtelling the intuitively felt will of God for a specific situation in the life of an individual or a nation.
...The Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy? (Amos 3:8)
But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. (1 Corinthians 14:3)
WHY DO WE PROPHESY?
And it shall come to pass in the last days, said God, I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: (Acts 2:17, 18)
Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; (Romans 12:6)
He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.
(1 Corinthians 14:4)
Despise not prophesyings. (1Thessalonians 5:20)
WHY DO WE WEEP AT TIMES IN WORSHIP?
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. (Psalm 126:6)
A time to weep, and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance; (Ecclesiastes 3:4)
Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God? (Joel 2:17)
Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
(Luke 6:21)
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. (Romans 12:15)
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