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Question 7

The speaker ties “You cannot serve God and mammon” to worship as “worthship,” claiming passion reveals what you truly value; if someone assessed your worship by your strongest passions (money, vacations, pleasures, comfort), what would they conclude you actually “worship,” and how do you know?

Another way to ask: If someone judged your worship by what you get most excited about (money, travel, fun, comfort), what would they say you truly worship? What makes you think that’s true?

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Direct Answer
Based on the speaker’s teaching, an outsider would identify your real worship by what you treat as most “worthy” through your passion—because worship is “worthship”—and the conclusion would be exposed by what excites you most, not what you claim with words.

Support from Transcript:

He quotes Jesus: “You cannot serve God and mammon,” and says this “has to do with worship.”
He explains worship as “worthship” and ties it to values: “Whatever that is, that’s what you’re worshiping.”
He critiques verbal claims: people say they worship Jesus, but are “very passionate about everything but Jesus.”
He lists common passions: “money… vacations… pleasures… all kinds of things.”
He states a diagnostic: “a person’s values is most indicated by his passion. What you’re the most excited about is the thing that you value.”
He connects this to the larger issue: getting values right so people are “truly worshiping God.”

Discussion Follow-ups If your calendar, spending, and conversations were treated as worship evidence, what story would they tell? What passion-shifts would be necessary for your worship to be visibly centered on Christ?

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