Pastor Pablo Russi

June 14, 2026

Worship Why’s

Week 5 Living Worship

Romans 12:1-2 - 12 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. 2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

1. OFFER: Worship begins when our whole lives are placed on God’s altar.

Worship is not another activity added to life. Worship is life placed on the altar.

2. SERVE: God’s grace was never meant to stop with us. It is meant to move through us.

1 Peter 4:8-11 8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. 9 Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. 10 As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace: 11 whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

God’s grace has many colors, and He displays those colors through His people.

Service becomes worship when God receives the glory.

3. SHAPE: One generation must intentionally help the next generation place its hope in God.

Psalm 78:1-8 -

1 Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;
    incline your ears to the words of my mouth!

2 I will open my mouth in a parable;

I will utter dark sayings from of old,

3 things that we have heard and known,

that our fathers have told us.

4 We will not hide them from their children,
  but tell to the coming generation

the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,
  and the wonders that he has done.

5 He established a testimony in Jacob
  and appointed a law in Israel,

which he commanded our fathers
  to teach to their children,

6 that the next generation might know them,
 the children yet unborn,

and arise and tell them to their children,

7  so that they should set their hope in God

and not forget the works of God,

but keep his commandments;
8 and that they should not be like their fathers,
  a stubborn and rebellious generation,

a generation whose heart was not steadfast,

whose spirit was not faithful to God.

We are not only worshiping for today. We are preparing worshipers for tomorrow.

What feels like one Sunday to you may become part of a child’s lifelong picture of God’s family.

Mark 10:13-16 - 13 And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. 14 But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. 15 Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it.” 16 And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

Kids Ministry is not babysitting. It is generational worship.

4. LIVE: When everything is done in Jesus’ name, ordinary life becomes worship.

Colossians 3:15-17 15 And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Colossians 3:22-24 22 Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters,[f] not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord. 23 Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. 25 For the wrongdoer will be paid back for the wrong he has done, and there is no partiality.

Anything done in Jesus’ name, with Jesus’ character, for Jesus’ glory, can become worship.