Talk

All Worship Involves Sacrifice

Louie Giglio
November 5, 2023

Louie Giglio takes this opportunity to remind listeners of the importance of bringing something to God that truly is sacrificial. God wants our worship, and rather than being a people who give Him the praise that costs us nothing, let us be a people who leave our gifts & time, goods & goals, highs & lows, and all our self-centeredness on the altar.

Key Takeaway

Bring God a costly sacrifice because that is what He truly desires to receive from us.

Gifts we can offer:

  1. Me and Mine.

  2. Gifts and time.

  3. Goods and goals.

  4. Highs and lows.

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"You don’t have to have a perfect voice or a perfect story, but what you do have to have is a heart that is open to God.”
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Louie Giglio

Discussion Questions

  1. What is the most precious item you have ever carried or transported?
  2. Have you ever thought about worship as “Bringing something to God”? What comes to your mind when you think about this idea of bringing a gift to a holy God?
  3. If “All worship involves sacrifice,” what were the sacrifices that made up your past Sunday's worship? What are some of the sacrifices you brought to God today? Take this question and try to think corporately about what the people of God give up in the worship of God, but also answer personally.
  4. What is the “fruit of lips that openly profess his name” (Heb. 13:15)?
  5. Explain in your own words how two people could offer the same praise, and yet God could hate one “praise” and love the other.
  6. Knowing that God wants a heart that is open to Him as worship, what becomes the most important thing in worship?
  7. Are you fully convinced down to the core that Jesus really is who He says He is and that He really did what the Scriptures say He did?
  8. What were the types of sacrifices that stuck in your mind after the talk? Why do you think you thought especially about the one you have in mind?
  9. What are your life goals? How close is your goal to the altar?
  10. What did Louie say is so important about attending church in person?

Scripture References

14For by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.
11The high priest carries the blood of animals into the Most Holy Place as a sin offering, but the bodies are burned outside the camp.
12And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.
13Let us, then, go to him outside the camp, bearing the disgrace he bore.
14For here we do not have an enduring city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
15Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.
16And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
21“I hate, I despise your religious festivals;

your assemblies are a stench to me.

22Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,

I will not accept them.

Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,

I will have no regard for them.

23Away with the noise of your songs!

I will not listen to the music of your harps.

24But let justice roll on like a river,

righteousness like a never-failing stream!

17My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit;

a broken and contrite heart

you, God, will not despise.

14For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
15And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio
Louie Giglio is the Visionary Architect and Director of the Passion Movement, comprised of Passion Conferences, Passion City Church, Passion Publishing and sixstepsrecords, and the founder of Passion Institute.