Living Worship

I work with our Praise and Worship group at home and the title of this book caught my eye the other day as I was browsing in the bookstore at Eastern Camp. Living Worship by John Randall Dennis, so I bought it. I have been reading it every chance I get. It is such a fun book.
The Hebrew word for Worship is shachah (pronounced shaw-kwah) and means...to prostrate in honor to God - to bow down, fall down flat, to do reverence, to stoop, to worship. (page 20)
The author gives "portraits of worship" through some of the well-known bible characters. After Job heard that all his animals, household, family and everything were all destroyed, his shachah was...The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord. Isaiah was in the temple preparing the table when he saw the Lord and fell down before him in shachah, recognizing and admitting his humanness and sin.
Some truths that the author points out:
*Worship doesn't have anything to do with our circumstances.
*Real worship proclaims real truths
*Worship isn't about us or for us. It is about God.
*Worshipers recognize and admit their sin.
"That we have not been justified on our religious performance, that we have peace with God through Christ, that we have access into a standing of grace that we did not conceive, initiate, accomplish, or sustain - these facts should be sufficient cause to make us a comunity of celebrating worhipers whose fellowship can go on forever!" (page 46)
I'm only at the beginning, but I can see that this is an excellent book. I wish I would have found it a long time ago.