The Church as a people worships God together. Several passages of Scripture speak of the gathered people of God singing psalms and hymns of praise to God (Colossians 3:16; Ephesians 5:16-19). When we gather and sing songs of praise to God, we are telling God that we love and admire him for his greatness and that we are grateful and overwhelmed with joy that he would shower us with his grace. We worship him for his character, his salvation, his daily provision, and his constant presence with us. 

However, worship is not simply songs. Worship consists of prayers, confessions, and listening and responding to God’s word. Worship includes all of life. 

“I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.” – Romans 12:1–2

“So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.” – 1 Corinthians 10:31

Worship is our whole-life response to God for his greatness and his grace. It involves our thinking, dreaming, planning, living, eating, drinking, responding, and speaking. It is an everyday, all-day activity of living in response to God. This is what the Church does as a people when gathered and when scattered.