From Dan Kimball's "Emerging Worship":
"Worship is 'the act of adoring and praising God, that is, ascribing worth to God as the one who deserves homage and service.' The most frequent Greek New Testament word for worship is proskuneo which stems from pros ("toward") and kuneo ("to kiss"). This is an act of reverence and devotion, and in biblical times often involved bowing, kneeling, and lying prostrate in reverence before a great and holy God. Worship is the way to express our love and praise to Jesus, who first loved us and gave himself up for us (Ephesians 5:25). In a worship gathering, we create a place where we can express love, devotion, adoration, and praise to God. But worship is not something we do only once a week on Sunday morning. Worship is a lifestyle of being in love with God and in awe of him all week long (emphasis added). It is offering our love, our adoration, and our praise to him through all our lives. Our minds, our hearts, our bodies, our marriages, our families, our jobs - everything should be offered to him in worship. This includes what we think about, what we do, what we say, what we eat, and what we spend time doing - they are all acts of worship."
... not much I can add to that.
Mitch
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