No Mundane Sundays
Lord's Day Exhortation
There is nothing mundane about Lord’s Day worship.
Yes, it is true that this Sunday worship service is part of your weekly schedule and routine. I trust that you are not making a decision every time Sunday morning comes around whether or not you will go to church.
And when we are gathered together, we do follow a set liturgy that is written down. The details of the service change, but the structure and rhythm of it remain the same each week. You know exactly what to expect when you come to church.
There are many benefits to having a set liturgy, and if we believe what we are doing is biblical, it makes little sense to constantly reimagine what the worship service could be. And at the same time we must never let this routine become… routine.
We must be on guard against the danger of simply going through the motions, of reciting the creed and singing the psalms with our lips—but not with our hearts and our souls. For to become bored with Lord’s Day worship is to forget what is actually happening here.
“For you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel” (Heb. 12:22–24).
We begin each service by proclaiming that we lift our hearts to the Lord, because it is here where the Spirit really does lift us up into heavenly places, that we may commune with our risen and ascended Lord, to be changed from glory to glory (Eph. 2:6, 2 Cor. 3:18).
Here we are laying ourselves down as living sacrifices to God, to be cut by the Word which is sharp enough to pierce between even soul and spirit, and to be placed on the altar’s fire to ascend as a sweet-smelling aroma to God (Rom. 12:1, Heb. 4:12, 1 Pet. 2:5).
This is what we have gathered to take part in this morning at Ascension Reformed Church. So let us join in with all creation and praise the Lord our God in His sanctuary (Ps. 150).
This exhortation was given on August 2, AD 2026, at Ascension Reformed Church in Moscow, Idaho.