The Highway Forums General Discussion Open Forum Cultural influences on worship

1. This person's application of the passage, whether from OT or the NT reference, which are the same, is a giant leap of something; certainly not logic. It is true that one should serve and worship God with reverence and awe [Grk: properly, godly fear] (Heb 12:28). And, it is true that one should have this attitude and heart when entering a place of worship. But it can't be found in that text.

2. Although the individual believer is sometimes referred to as being the "temple of God or Holy Spirit" (1Cor 3:16; 6:19; 2Cor 6:16), a "holy temple" (Eph 2:21,22), and a "spiritual house" (1Pet 2:5), it is also true that wherever believers gather together for formal worship it can be called a "sanctuary", i.e., the place where the presence of God can be found in a particular way, e.g., divine worship. This is a truth greatly and horribly ignored or denied by the contemporary 'church'.