Before the meeting was over the worship committee had commissioned me to preach about worship. Today's sermon gathers up the most frequently asked questions that have been brought to me or that I have overheard. Worship is our acknowledgement of God's worth-ship. God is worthy. His worth-ship is the ongoing realism of his worthiness.
Friend ship is the ongoing realism of our friend's friendliness.
A friiend isn't a friend for an instant only, ceasing to be a friend in the next instant. To worship is simply to acknowledge the worth-ship of God. And God's worth-ship is his ceaseless worthiness. If there is incomparable worth in knowing Jesus Christ, it can only be because Jesus Christ himself, the mirror-image of God, is first incomparably worthy. John never suffered from lack of self-confidence.