We learn today that religious worship and prayer is not limited to any one place. We are taught by Jesus in John 4:24 that God is spirit and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.
The regular worship of God is to be conducted in three ways: publicly, as in our Church worship service today; as a family; and privately. What we do publicly in a Church worship service helps us to understand how worship is to be conducted as a family, and privately.
Worship doesn’t happen only on Sunday mornings, but it is a part of our every day lives. The confession says God should be worshiped daily in families and privately by individuals. It warns us not to neglect or forsake worship.
So as we read today’s confession, let us affirm God’s call for us to worship him publicly, in our families, and privately.
6. Under the gospel, neither prayer nor any other part of religious worship is now limited to—or made more acceptable by—any particular place where it is performed or toward which it is directed. On the contrary, God is to be worshiped everywhere in spirit and truth. He should be worshiped daily in families, and privately by individuals, and with greater solemnity in public worship services. Such worship services are not to be carelessly or willfully neglected or forsaken when God by his Word or his providence calls people to them.
