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In chapter 11 of Bob Kauflin's "Worship Matters," he talks about the act of worshiping God. He says that our society has split music worship and scripture worship completely in two. He gives us an example that some people go to two different churches. One for good music, and the other for a good teaching. But we shouldn't be like that, we should be worshiping every day all day. Worship is not just done when we are in church singing. We should be worshiping all the time. Personally, in Bible class right now, we have been talking about the discipline worship. And my teacher was saying that worship is not done once a day, nor once a week at church. He says we should worship whenever we can because worship is glorifying God, which should be done every day.

In this chapter, Bob Kauflin addresses the issue that "churches can faithfully magnify the greatness of God in Christ yet fail to demonstrate the kind of empowered living and passion that the gospel should produce." I think what he means by this is that churches, and people as well, always talk about how great God is and magnify his name, which is true, but they don't show it to an extent that people can apply to their lives. We not only need to talk about God's greatness, but also live through him and have him empower us. This relates to the title of this chapter "through the power of the Holy Spirit" because we can use the strength God gives us to go through our daily lives. I can apply this to my life, especially in worship. Everyone gets nervous at some point when you are on stage, especially me, but I think that if I really ask God to help me through the power of the Holy Spirit, it could help not only me but anyone through everyday life.

In this chapter (chapter 9) of Bob Kauflin’s Worship Matters he says that “we would no longer be limited to physical structures” to meet with God. He said that we should worship God in spirit and in truth by means of Christ. Kauflin also says that Jesus is our meditator, and that we should magnify by not only worshiping Jesus as God, but we should draw attention to his specific work.   I really liked when Kauflin wrote that glorifying God means glorifying his cross. I also think that worship itself cannot bring us into God’s presence, only Jesus can do so. I really liked how Kauflin emphasized that the quality of our worship does not determine our access to God. God loves us no matter how we preform, or sound.