These words where uttered by Jacob after awakening from a dream. His dream was about a ladder that stretched from the earth to heaven and angels were ascending and descending. And the Lord was standing at the top of the ladder and spoke to Jacob, telling he would give him the land where he slept.

Jacob awoke and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not”.

How many times do we enter the doors of our churches out of pure habit. How many times have we gone to church and not participated in worship. Maybe they weren’t singing the songs we liked or the music was too loud.

How many times has the Lord been there, “…and we knew it not”?

It’s time that we stop being an audience of spectators and start being an audience of participators.

It’s time to move from Program Worship to Participatory Worship.

• Program Worship is about something rather than to someone
• Programs are typically passive
• Program Worship invites judgement

We must plan for God to be the source rather than the topic of worship.

We have to shift our emphasis from whether I am pleased to whether God is pleased…