1. Why do we stand when we worship?
"And the Levites... of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise the Lord of God of Israel with a loud voice on high." (2 Chronicles 20:19)
2. Why do we clap our hands?
"Oh, clap your hands, all ye peoples; shout unto God with the voice of triumph!"
(Psalms 47:1)
3. Why do we lift our hands?
"Thus I will bless Thee while I live; I will lift up my hands in Thy name." (Psalms 63:4)
"I desire, therefore that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting." (1 Timothy 2:8)
4. What is prophecy?
"...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)
"Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy."
(1 Corinthians 14:1)
"But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal... to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy." (1 Corinthians 12:7,10)
"For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be comforted."
(1 Corinthians 14:31)
"Let the prophets speak two or three, and let the other be judge." (1 Corinthians 14:29)
5. Why do we have speaking with tongues and interpretation of those tongues?
"Therefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues" (1 Corinthians 14:39)
"But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to each one for the profit withal...to another divers kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues." (1 Corinthians 12:7,10)
"I would that ye all spoke with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied; for greater is he who prophesieth than he who speakth with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying." (1 Corinthians 14:5)
"But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal... to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy." (1 Corinthians 14:25)
"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 14:27)
6. Why do we pray in tongues and in 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 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)
7. Why do we sing Songs?
"And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord." (Ephesians 5:18-19)
"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)
8. Why are musical instruments a part of the worship service?
"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)
9. Why do we anoint with oil and pray for the sick?
"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."
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