Dynamic 1: Our Approach to God



The Kingdom Focused Church is Committed to Reverencing God

Our worship service is vertical in orientation. In the “Purpose Driven Church” the author states that Sunday is morning is for the crowd and not for the committed. This is an understandable approach because on any given Sunday, there is a mixture of people in attendance (saved, backslidden, seeking and lost). However, it is not the people in attendance that are the focus of a worship service, but our God, who is the object of our worship.

In a KFC, we define worship as “responding to the person of God”. Yet to respond to God, one must first have a spiritual revelation of who He is; it requires a relationship. Since non-believers do not have a spiritual relationship with God, they lack the ability to fellowship with or worship Him. As such, it is impossible (and unbiblical) to attempt to design a worship service to attract non-believers.

In a Kingdom Focused Church, success of a worship service is not in the number of those in attendance, but rather in the authenticity of the reverence, honor and glory in which we present to God. The key question in a KFC is, “Did we honor God?” Worship is channeled towards the object of the worship (God) for His glory. This vertical fellowship between God and His people does have a horizontal impact (both in the lives of believers and the lost.

• To the believer the worship experience is transformational in that it brings the disciple into closer union with his/her purpose (to serve God and enjoy Him). It also provides that much needed fellowship between the Saints (the Royal Subjects) and their Sovereign (the King of Kings).

• To the lost the worship service is evangelical in that they observe the communion of the Spirit with the flesh. This communion is a visible representation of an internal longing for completion that they have been unable to fulfill in the natural. They find hope in the liturgical expression of praise to God (i.e. the doxology). It becomes a form of “doxological evangelism”.