God's Rich Blessings

Why do we end our worship service with a benediction? We will be finishing our series on worship this week by answering that very question. As we have seen, our worship is meant to be very God and His Word centered. Things are done for God, as God commanded that they be done. Our service opens with an invitation to worship from God's Word, and now we will look at the close of our service from God's Word as well, the benediction or blessing. Is that something important? Is anything really happening? 

In order to answer those questions, we need to look at a more basic question: What is blessing? There is a lot of confusion about what is a blessing. Is it physical things? That seems too unspiritual! Is it just spiritual? That seems like that doesn't take into account all that God does in our lives! We will attempt to get some clarity around this issue, and I hope by the end of it, you will see the benediction for the real blessing that it is. 

We will look at two points this morning: God's blessings are comprehensive and All God's Blessings are in Christ.