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Worship That Pleases God

Love the Lord your God with all your heart

and with all your soul and with all

your mind and with all your strength.

Mark 12:30 (NIV)

God wants all of you.
God doesn’t want a part of your life. He asks for all your heart,
all your soul, allyour mind, and allyour strength. God is not
interested in halfhearted commitment, partial obedience, and the
leftovers of your time and money. He desires your full devotion,
not little bits of your life.
A Samaritan woman once tried to debate Jesus on the best
time, place, and style for worship. Jesus replied that these external
issues are irrelevant. Where you worship is not as important as
whyyou worship and how muchof yourself you offer to God when
you worship. There is a right and wrong way to worship. The
Bible says, “Let us be grateful and worship God in a way that will
please him.”^1 The kind of worship that pleases God has four
characteristics:

The Purpose-Driven Life 100