It shows us Christ and leaves us looking to Christ. If that is not the case we have not truly worshipped. God uses public worship to cause us to grow in grace and the knowledge of Christ. It always inspires, increases, and enlarges the faith, submission, and consecration of the believer to Christ. We cannot do without public worship, anymore than we can go without food.
Worship is one of the most ancient traditions of the church.
It is a witness to the historical reality of Christ's resurrection and is an effective way to maintain Christian identity. We see examples of this in the first few centuries of the Christian era when an officially supportive culture followed after Constantine. In our own day, the assembling together of believers to celebrate is an important evangelical witness to the world as well as a sustaining manifestation of the church. This issue of the Northern Light is dedicated to the issue of why we worship.