1. Enthusiasts Loving God with Mystery and Celebration

2. ENTHUSIASTS REMIND THE CHURCH THAT GOD IS TO BE CELEBRATED FOR ALL HIS GREATNESS.

3. Enthusiasts “Excitement and mystery in worship is the spiritual lifeblood of enthusiasts. …enthusiasts are inspired by joyful celebration… cheerleaders for God and the Christian life.

4. Enthusiasts They clap their hands, shout ‘Amen!’ and even dance in their excitement. …They don’t want to just know concepts, but to experience them, to feel them, and to be moved by them.”

5. Enthusiasts “Enthusiasts enjoy a celebratory form of worship as well as many of the more supernatural forms of faith. …like to let go and experience God on the precipice of excitement and awe.”

6. Enthusiasts The best known of the Enthusiasts in the Bible was King David 1 Chron 13:7-8, 1 Chron 15:25-29

7. Enthusiasts Jesus rode into Jerusalem accompanied by an Enthusiasts worship service Luke 19:37-40

8. Enthusiasts Enthusiasts refresh the church with vibrant worship. Matt 22:37-38 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'

9. Enthusiasts Enthusiasts celebrate the great things that God has done. Ps 116:1-2 I love the LORD, for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. 2 Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.

10. Enthusiasts Enthusiasts demonstrate freedom leading to individual expression of worship.

11. Enthusiasts Ps 134 Praise the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who minister by night in the house of the LORD. 2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary and praise the LORD. 3 May the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth, bless you from Zion.

12. Enthusiasts Ps 63:4-5 4 I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. 5 My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.

13. Enthusiasts -- Cautions Equating feeling good with obedience and righteousness.

14. Enthusiasts -- Cautions Realizing that their worship experience may make others uncomfortable

15. Enthusiasts -- Cautions Believing God has abandoned you between times of celebration.

16. Enthusiasts -- SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES  Spend a day singing a worship song out loud.  Pray out loud as you drive.  Buy a new worship CD and listen to it everyday for a week.  Volunteer to work with children.  Attend a “Big Event”  Read the Psalms and Revelation