Worship is a Window to Another World

What if worship is less like a concert—and more like looking through a window into another world?

In this message, worship is reimagined as a kind of spiritual telescope: a way of seeing reality as it truly is and as it will be. Drawing from Revelation 4–5, the sermon invites us to stand with John as a door in heaven opens and we glimpse the end of the story. We expect a lion—raw power, domination, the force that finally fixes everything—but at the center of the throne stands a Lamb who was slain. The shock of Revelation is that the world is not saved by superior firepower, but by a love so valuable that kings lay down their crowns. Worship, then, becomes an act of resistance and re-formation: training our hearts to recognize true worth and refuse the beasts that promise security through violence.

This sermon is part of the Sacred Spaces series and was preached during Epiphany Week 4. It explores why worship has always been central to the life of the church—not because God needs songs, but because we need sight. In worship, heaven comes close, the window opens, and we learn to say with our lives, not just our voices: Worthy is the Lamb.