Some Biblical Expressions of Corporate Worship

Last night Back in Jan­u­ary 2003 we talked about wor­ship, and I dis­cussed dif­fer­ent ways we wor­ship God. This list isn’t exhaus­tive, but it’s help­ful and so I thought I’d post it here for future ref­er­ence.

Singing: the book of Psalms, Eph­esians 5:19, Colos­sians 3:16
Music: 1st Chron­i­cles 13:8, Psalm 33:3, Psalm 150
Artis­tic Cre­ation: Exo­dus 31:1–11, Exo­dus 28, Ezekiel 4:1
Clap­ping: Psalm 47:1, Isa­iah 55:12
Words: Psalm 9:1, Psalm 73:28, Psalm 78:4–6
Laugh­ing & Rejoic­ing: Psalm 9:2, Psalm 126:1–3, Psalm 149:5, Zepha­ni­ah 3:14–17
Shout­ing: Psalm 95:1, Psalm 98:4–6, Psalm 100:1
Silence: Psalm 46:10, Habakkuk 2:20
Stand­ing: 1st Chron­i­cles 23:30, Psalm 24:3–6
Rais­ing Our Hands: Nehemi­ah 8:6, Psalm 63:3–5, Psalm 134:1–2; 1st Tim­o­thy 2:8
Bow­ing & Kneel­ing: 2 Chron­i­cles 7:3, Psalm 95:6, Daniel 6:10–11
Lying Pros­trate: Deuteron­o­my 9:18, Rev­e­la­tion 19:4
Leap­ing: 2nd Samuel 6:16, Luke 6:23, Acts 3:7–8
Danc­ing: Exo­dus 15:20–21, Psalm 149:3, Psalm 150:4
Speak­ing In Tongues: Acts 2:1–11; Acts 10:46; 1st Corinthi­ans 14:26–33

Inci­den­tal­ly, when I saw the mas­sive num­ber of Bib­li­cal ref­er­ences in this post­ing, I decid­ed to final­ly install Jonathan Fox’s Scrip­tur­iz­er plu­g­in for Move­able Type. Worked like a charm! If you use MT and quote from the Bible, I high­ly rec­om­mend this won­der­ful tool.

UPDATE: on 12/21/04 I added the Artis­tic Cre­ation entry (3rd one down) and struck through the com­ment at the end. Also, I’m not using the Scrip­tur­iz­er plu­g­in right now so the pas­sages prob­a­bly aren’t hyper­linked.