For: The Institute Of Contemporary And Emerging Worship Studies, St. Stephen’s University, Essentials Blue Online Worship Theology Course with Dan Wilt

God is omnipotnent, omnicient, and omnipresent. He exists withing and outside our dimensions. He works with, but is not restricted to time. God is tri-une. He exists as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The best analogy for this that I can think of is how as humans we are Spirit (Spirit), Soul (Father) and Body (Son). Most importantly, God is love. He is a pure, selfless love. All of His actions stem from this.

As humans, we were created to be able to share in the love of God. He has so much, that He just wants to see it multiply to no end. We are created in God’s image. We are not divine, but we reflect divinity. As reflections of God, we have the capacity to act like Him, in a limited way.

We are created to love God, of our own free will. Worshipping Him, through song and life brings us purpose. When we seek Him and walk in His ways, we are living a fully human life, mirroring His fully divine life.

Along the way, we messed up and took our own path. By doing this, we stopped following God’s plan for humanity and stopped living a fully human life. Although humanity ceased to walk with God as intimately before, we still seek Him out. The four echoes of God’s voice (beauty, justice, relationship, and spirituality) were left in creation for us to seek, and find Him

Jesus coming to earth as a man and sacrificing His life for us is God’s solution for fixing the relationship we wrecked. He lived a fully human life while retaining full divinity; a perfect bearer of Imago Dei, the image of God.

Jesus preached the Kingdom of God, letting us know that it is here now. The Kingdom of God is an active domain. When we walk in God’s will, we are acting in the Kingdom. Living a Kingdom life, we will see peace, joy, love, healing, and prosperity. It is our job as citizens of the Kingdom to spread it to the world. The world needs the justice and love of the Kindgom badly, and God wants this to happen. As the body of Christ, we have to show the Kingdom with our actions, not just preach it. This mean clothing those who are naked, feeding those who are hungry, and taking in the homeless (Matthew 23).

Jesus made it clear that His kingdom has a social responsability on earth. In short, the Kingdom of God is when the Heavenly sphere interacts with the earthly.

Ultimately, Jesus will establish a physical kingdom on the new earth, with Him as King. We will live forever with Him, and continue to worship. Imagine what this will be like! We get a lot of blessing and growth out of worshipping in our flawed state; as flawless people living in the presence of God the joy worship will bring us is unfathomable. Finally, our purpose that was derailed after creation will be made complete.