What Does Worship in Spirit & in Truth Look Like?

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https://orthodoxtao.com/notes/orthodox-worship-notes/


Scripture citations for this episode:
John 4:1-42 - the Samaritan woman at the well, worship in spirit & in truth

Genesis 1-3 - Jesus walks in the Garden with Adam & Eve
Genesis 3 - Sin results in toil & labor
Genesis 4 - Cain is off the rails which is why God rejects his sacrifice
- His ascetic activity tilling the ground has hardened his heart instead of softening
Genesis 5-9 - Everything gets worse & worse until God unmakes the world
- The ark is the vessel of salvation, many churches are designed to look like an inverted ark
- Noah is given the same first commandment, “be fruitful & multiply”, be a gardener
Genesis 11 - Babel is the archetypal false religion: transactional, tries to control “the god”
- God scatters the nations to try to save them from this but they worship demons
Ezekiel 1, Revelation 4 & 7, 21 & 22 - liturgical Sabbath worship

Exodus 25-31 - The physicality of The Tabernacle
- An Orthodox church has an alter, an ark of the covenant, a 7 branch candle stand
- We have the table of bread, we have incense & oil

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