When did it become an adjective?

When I was growing up, a long time ago before the earth's crust was solid, worship was never thought of as an adjective but rather it was a verb. I want to say that it is more than a verb it is life itself. We now have worship songs, worship time, worship services, worship leaders but do we have worship? Have worship as an adjective means that we compartmentalize worship. However, we are to live a life of worship.
I saw this about sixteen years ago when my son's best friend was killed in a car accident. When the police came to their home in the middle of the night his mother told the police that she knew where her son was, he was in heaven. The police were used to people reacting so differently, becoming hysterical and beating on them in their grief. This was a life of worship. God is good in the good times and in the bad. He is always good. He is not a therapeutic God but a sovereign God of the universe.

Your God is too Small

A number of years ago J. B. Phillips wrote a book titled, "Your God is too Small." I believe that you cannot worship a God that is too small. People have referred to God as the man upstairs or another such name but this is not a god that you can worship. The God that calls us to worship Him is bigger than the universe as He created it all. There are no words in any language that can describe Him. A domesticated god is not a god that we can worship we can only worship the God who cannot be tamed. When John tried to describe God words failed him.
How big is your God? Is your God indescribable?

Worship and Doctrine

Should a worship leader have a good knowledge of doctrine? Before I go any further with this post I should point out that I just used "worship" as an adjective when it is much more than that but I will get to that in another post.
Jesus told the woman of Samaria that the time was coming when we would worship in spirit and in truth. People love the spirit part but they ignore the truth. What does that mean for our worship?
First, we must know the truth and not just the truth in abstract but the Truth as a person. Jesus is the Truth and the life. Our worship is not just with our emotions but it involves the mind.
Second, it means that the songs that we sing should speak the truth. They should be more than a catchy tune but have meaningful words. My son often said that the choruses we sing are take home theology. It is important that the words speak the truth. It is important that the one that picks the songs we sing also knows the truth.
Some people have said "no creed but Christ" but what does that mean? If you don't have a creed then what do you believe abut Christ? Who is He? The creed "no creed but Christ" is laziness and does more harm to our worship than we could imagine. We must know the truth, we must worship with our minds, we must know doctrine to worship properly.