The true, holy and biblical worship of God is the highest privilege and duty of the Body of Christ.[1]  “We worship God because God created us to worship him.  Worship is at the center of our existence, at the heart of our reason for being.”[2]  The Church most directly serves her Lord when she worships God in spirit and in truth.[3]  Therefore, in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, the Church militant on earth gathers with the Church triumphant before the throne of God above to give Christ the glory due His name.[4] 

However, we cannot rightly worship God if we do not understand God and we cannot understand God without the Bible.  The late James Montgomery Boice once remarked, “To worship God we must know who God is, but we cannot know who God is unless God first chooses to reveal himself to us.  God has done this in the Bible, which is why the Bible and the teachings of the Bible need to be central in our worship.”[5]  It only follows that the only acceptable way of worshiping God is according to His Word, limited and regulated by God’s revelation of Himself, and therefore cannot result from the vain imaginations of men, the demands of culture, sincere emotionalism, or “any other way not prescribed in the Holy Scripture.”[6]  This is the “regulative principle” of worship.