How We Use the English Word "Worship"

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C.E.B. Cranfield (1915-2015) explores different uses of the word "worship": as a specific action/element in a service, as the public and private exercises of individuals and congregations, and as the life of the community before God.
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We may distinguish three uses of the word “worship”; (i) to denote a particular element of what is generally referred to as worship, namely, adoration; (ii) to denote generally the public worship of the religious community gathered together and also the private religious exercises of the family and the individual; and (iii), in a still wider sense, to denote the whole life of the community or of the individual viewed as service of God. —C.E.B. Cranfield, “Divine and Human Action: The Biblical Concept of Worship,” Interpretation 12:4 (October, 1958), 387
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