Preparing for corporate worship: Jesus and His work

How can we not make much of Jesus and His work in corporate worship? There would be no Christianity without Him and His cross-work. There would be no Christian church without Him and His perfectly completed mission to purchase a people. There would be no Christian worship without Him, as well as His righteous life, substitutionary death and glorious resurrection that create true worshipers.

Paul writes about God the Son’s supremacy and centrality in Col. 1:13-23. In that marvelous text, we see Jesus is, among other things:

-- “[T]he image of the invisible God;”

-- The Creator of all things;

-- “[B]efore all things;”

-- The One “in whom all things hold together;”

-- “[H]ead of the body, the church;”

-- The One who has “first place in everything;”

-- The One through whom God the Father was pleased to “reconcile all things to Himself.”

No wonder we will gather in Jesus’ name this Sunday on the basis of His reconciling work in our behalf to worship the one true God, who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. May we meet with a passion to exalt Jesus as we worship the only One worthy of worship.