What's My Next Step, God?: Worship | Rev. Roberto Chaple
Our instinct is to want every step mapped out before we move. But what happens when God shows you only the next one?
This series walks through the steps Scripture gives for exactly that moment. We started with prayer. This week the answer was worship — and specifically, worship we do together.
Three half-truths
Pastor Roberto named three things the church has quietly come to believe. Each one is a half-truth, which is what makes them effective.
Sophisticated worship — we have convinced ourselves worship is so specialised that only the experts can do it for us. It comes down to one question: how much do we actually need in order to worship Jesus?
If we need something other than Jesus to worship Jesus, then we are not worshiping Jesus.
Self-centered worship — we worship Him for what He did for us. True, but if we stop there, we are still at the centre. Real worship moves past what He did to who He is.
Solo worship — we have decided we do not need to come to church to worship God at all. There is truth in that, and yet both Testaments keep insisting on personal and corporate worship.
What Hebrews actually asks for
Hebrews 10:24-25 gives four verbs: consider one another, spur one another toward love and good deeds, gather as a habit rather than an occasion, and encourage one another.
Christians don't grow on trees; they grow in community.
The question worth sitting with
Pastor Roberto put four options out there. Is New Hope a restaurant, where we come for what suits our taste? A hotel, a temporary stay? A hospital, somewhere we go only when we need something? Or a family, where we belong?
It was never about the building. It is about what happens inside it.
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Pastor Roberto Chaple — What's My Next Step, God? Worship — October 4, 2026
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