The child of God is called to worship Him through obedience to His commands. Jesus said that “he who loves me will obey my commands”. If one looks to the bible to discover what it means to truly “worship” God in this dispensation they will find that there are two distinct words used in the New Testament, one that if exclusively used while God was physically present in ones midst (i.e. the Gospels and Revelation) and another used when He was not (the rest of the New Testament excluding Revelation when the author reverted to the use of the Greek word that was used for “worship” in the Gospels!).
In short, the Greek word used in the Gospels and Revelation means to pay homage/honor to one who is physically in your midst and the word used in the rest of the NT literally means to show respect by obeying commands! This would lead any student of the Bible who applies correct hermeneutics to the conclusion that since God is not physically in our midst during this dispensation we are commanded to “worship” (i.e. show respect by living a life of obedience) Him. And when Christ returns to gather us from the earth we will once again “worship” Him by paying homage as He will literally be in our midst.
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