The place of preaching in worship Introduction Worship is the business of adoration towards God. When a believer comes before the living God in Christ they bow before him and adore him, they recognize his holiness in adoration.
Worship is done in private prayer, but is also done with other believers in a service of worship.
Believers in the Anglican church gather for worship Sunday by Sunday in the service of Morning Prayer or Holy Communion as set out in the Prayer Book. By following the book a believer worships God in praise, prayer, confession and thanksgiving. At the centre of the service there is the worship of listening, of listening to Christ, hearing his Word. The reading and exposition of scripture takes pride of place in an Anglican service. At the time of the Reformation in the sixteenth century, preaching in the English church was at a low ebb.