Hey, there. I'm Allison, and I'm having so much fun worshipping Jesus with music and
instruments and singing and dancing.
You see, worship is when we show God we love him because he's the most important thing.
One way to worship God is through music.
So here's our big idea.
We can worship God.
Let's do those motions together.
We can worship God.
Great job.
Now, let's go hear some more about our story.
One, two, three.
Now, do you know what this is?
It's a Bible, and it's all about God's story and how he rescued us.
In the beginning, God made the whole world and everything in it.
He made the sun and moon and planets and stars.
He made forests and mountains and oceans.
He made all kinds of animals like lions and elephants and birds.
Next, God made his most special creation of all - people like you and me.
The first two people were named Adam and Eve.
They lived in a beautiful garden filled with flowers and trees and fruit.
They got to spend time with God every day, and it was good.
Can you show good?
Great job.
Then something sad happened.
Can you show me sad?
A snake lied to Adam and Eve and they believed him and disobeyed God.
Then all the wrong things came into the world like sickness and sadness and death.
But the story doesn't stop there, because even though Adam and Eve disobeyed God, God
still loved them, just like he loves us.
And he came up with a rescue plan so that Adam and Eve and you and me could be close
to God again.
And our rescuer is Jesus.
Can you show me the sign for Jesus?
Great job.
So, do you remember what it means to worship God?
It's when we show God we love him because he's the most important thing.
It's when we focus only on him and give him our attention and our love.
Now, do you think there's only one way to worship God?
No way. There are so many ways to worship and show God how much we love him.
Let's find out how.
God's story: Worship.
So part of God's story is about worship, and it goes like this.
Worship is showing God we love him because he's the most important thing.
It can look like lots of different things but what matters is that you're focusing on
God with your mind, your heart and even with your body.
That's what a guy named David did.
David was king of Israel and was really famous for defeating Goliath, making plans to build
a huge temple for God and leading the Israelites to victory in battle.
He was a powerful and important guy.
Well, Israel's enemies had stolen something that was really valuable.
And one day, King David's army came back from a battle, and they had gotten it back.
They were marching and playing music in the streets.
It was like a parade.
And because he knew God had blessed them, David started to dance in front of everyone.
It must have been kind of silly to see King David, a great warrior, dancing in the streets.
Even his wife said she didn't think that's how a kind should behave.
But David said, "I did it to honor God. I will celebrate for the Lord."
David didn't care if worshipping God made him look funny to other people, as long as
it made God happy.
Because to David, God was the most important thing.
We can also show God he's the most important thing to us by being generous like in the
story of the widow and the two mites.
One day, Jesus and his followers saw some people who were tithing, or giving money,
at the temple.
Some people had a lot of money.
They were able to give more money than other people.
And they were kind of showing off.
But Jesus pointed out a poor woman whose husband had died.
She came up to offer two mites, or tiny coins, to give at the temple.
It was way less than what the rich people were giving.
Jesus said, "What I'm about to tell you is true. That poor widow has put more into the
offering box than all the others. They all gave a lot because they're rich. But she gave
even though she is poor. She put in everything she had. That was all she had to live on."
Jesus was saying that what matters isn't how much we give or how impressive it is to others.
The most important thing is that we're worshipping God.
Jesus noticed that the widow gave up everything she had because she was worshipping God.
We can also worship God by sacrificing, or giving up something valuable for someone else.
That's what Jesus's friend Mary did when Jesus was at her house having dinner.
Mary had a jar of really expensive perfume.
She went right up to Jesus, broke the jar and poured the expensive perfume onto Jesus's
head.
Then she kneeled down in front of Jesus and used her tears and hair to wash his feet.
People may have thought it was a huge waste of money to use so much perfume like that.
Or even thought it was weird for her to wash Jesus's feet with her hair.
But Jesus said, "Leave her alone. She has done a beautiful thing for me."
See, Jesus knew he was about the make the ultimate sacrifice to rescue everyone.
And later when he was arrested, tried and put to death, he could remember what Mary
did for him out of worship.
Now, we may not dance in the street or give away all our money or pour out a bunch of
fancy perfume, but there are lots of other ways we can show God we love him.
Some people use their creativity to make art that worships God.
Some people use their minds to find ways to help others.
And some people even give their time to serve their neighbors.
Because Jesus said the greatest commandment besides loving God is to love others.
These are all ways to tell God he's the most important thing.
The Bible says, "Offer yourselves as living sacrifices to God. This is your true and proper
worship."
And that's a little about what the Bible says about worship.
So in case you missed it, here's the quick version.
Worship is telling God he's the most important thing.
David worshipped by dancing.
The widow worshipped by giving all her money away.
Mary worshipped by giving something valuable to Jesus.
We can all worship in lots of different ways.
And that's a part of God's story.
Wow, there are so many ways we can worship God.
We can celebrate and express our joy through dancing and singing just like David.
God had blessed David and helped him in battle so David wanted to show God how thankful and
happy he was.
We can also worship through giving things to God and being generous.
We can give our money, our time and we can even give just by helping others and treating
them with love.
Sometimes it can be hard to give things up or help other people.
But that's exactly what Jesus did when he lived here on Earth.
And we can do it too.
Now, we don't have to worship just when we're really happy and having a good time.
We can worship when we're feeling sad or scared or lonely.
No matter how we feel or what we're going through, we can always spend time with God
and worship him.
Because no matter what happens to us, God is always good and powerful and he loves us
more than anything.
Let's pray to God right now.
When we pray, that means we talk with God and listen to him, and he listens to us, too.
You can say these words after me.
Hey, God.
We love you.
We want to worship you.
Thank you for being good and powerful and for loving us.
Amen.
Now, let's worship.
We're gonna give all our attention to Jesus.
So let's stand up and sing as loud as you can while we sing this special song.
Thanks for hanging out with me.
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