In English, to worship is to feel an adoring reverence or regard for something or someone.  In Hebrew and Greek, the words we see in Scripture indicate a physical response to something, to fall down or prostrate oneself before something.

By these definitions, worship is identifiable in practically every society.  It takes many different forms, but regardless of religious persuasion or social class or political position, people worship.  If you grant the premise, several questions follow: who (or what) do we worship?  Why do we worship what we do?  How do we worship?  Is worship helpful?  Because worship is part of every life, everyone must wrestle with each of these questions.

This week, as we continue our series on First Corinthians entitled A Better Way, we will have the opportunity to come face to face with the substance of our worship.  In the middle of chapter 10 of his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul gives an impassioned plea to the believers in Corinth to ensure that the only one they worship is the triune God.  To worship anything or anyone else is what Scripture calls idolatry, which Paul desperately wants the Church to avoid.  Our text for this weekend contains Paul's three-part argument against idolatry that is just as relevant for us today as it was for his audience 2000 years ago.