{"id":41351,"date":"2021-11-16T06:47:58","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T12:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=41351"},"modified":"2021-11-16T06:53:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T12:53:21","slug":"what-the-doctrine-of-the-trinity-means-for-our-corporate-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=41351","title":{"rendered":"What the Doctrine of the Trinity Means for Our Corporate Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trinity is definitive for corporate worship. Apart from the being and works of the triune God, corporate worship would not exist. Accordingly, the church directs its worship to the Trinity in praise of the Trinity because of who he is and what he has done. Though the entirety of Scripture confirms the preceding points, Revelation 4\u20135 displays them with particular clarity and beauty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.)\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Corporate worship exists because of the Trinity.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Although the external works of the Trinity are undivided, Revelation 4\u20135 appropriates to distinct persons of the Trinity the distinct phases of the Trinity\u2019s work of bringing corporate worship into reality.\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/katie\/Google%20Drive\/Editorial\/Journal\/October%202021\/Doctrine%20Journal%20Draft.docx#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]\u00a0<\/a>According to these chapters, the Father wills corporate worship, the Son enables corporate worship, and the Spirit empowers corporate worship.<\/p>\n<p>The Father wills corporate worship. Revelation 4:9 describes the first person of the Trinity as \u201chim who is seated on the throne, who lives forever and ever.\u201d According to Revelation 5:1, the first person of the Trinity holds in his right hand a \u201cscroll,\u201d which is best understood as a symbol of God\u2019s sovereign decree for creation. In light of Isaiah 6, to which Revelation 4\u20135 repeatedly alludes, we may conclude that God\u2019s decree for creation includes his desire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week after week, across the globe, the vision of Revelation 4\u20135 is fulfilled as congregations praise one God in three persons, our Maker, our Redeemer, our Reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[793],"tags":[334,322],"class_list":["post-41351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9marks","tag-corporate-worship","tag-preaching-theology","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41351"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41353,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41351\/revisions\/41353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}