I don't remember my first experience at worship. I was carried there as an infant in my mother's arms. I can almost count on one hand the number of weeks in my 59 years of life that I have not been somewhere in a worship service to praise and thank God. Worship is a part of my DNA. It's just deep within my soul.

It was the Westminster Catechism that stated years ago, the chief purpose of humanity is to glorify God and enjoy him forever. We were not created to please ourselves. We were made to please God. I don't know where that's more vividly expressed than when people gather in all sorts of places and circumstances to worship God and to celebrate God's goodness among us. Certainly that was true of the early Church. They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching. They were in awe and w…