Sometimes I find it profitable to define terms in correct order. Every definition is often dependent on a segment arising out of definitions of other terms. Worship is often not fully fleshed out in many cases. The key word in worship I believe is love.
No Greater Love Than This
Appreciation of the Paraclete is paramount in understanding the central importance of the Trinity. when Jesus said He would send another helper. It was necessary for Him to suffer on the cross, die, and rise again for us to realize the Holy Ghost.
If one loves enough and deep enough then worship enters in. For instance, if a man loves a woman strong enough then he will often use the term worship to describe his love, as he bows on one knee to ask her to enter his great commitment, marriage.
I cannot see me worshiping God very intensely if I have an unclear appreciation for Jesus defining the Holy Spirit for us. This was the single great theme of His ministry. This awareness of the spirit, the greatest of all the unseen forces predates Newton's gravity by a large time gap so large it is not connected in not only the popular mind, but not even the religious mind. One realizes how little the religious mind makes of the Holy Spirit when they spun off the scientific mind in what primarily boiled down to a perception of power. This struggle was lost rather quickly it seems to me with the development of early telescopes, and of course formally with the fixed wrestling match, the great Galileo Slamdown.
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