“Worship as Lifestyle: an Exegetical Study of Ephesians 5:15-20 (Biblical Answer to Contemporary Pentecostal Worship)”

This article is all about biblical theology of worship, basically derived from one of Pauline famous passages taken from his epistle to the Ephesians, that is worth even to call worship passage indeed. The article mainly critiqued, from biblical point of view, our contemporary misconception about Christian worship that so many times is seen as just an one-and-half hour service routinely done on Sunday morning. However, to accommodate the limitation that the articles of this kind have, this article focuses on Pauline thinking of Christian worship that is most evident in Ephesians 5:15-20. In fact, this article is an exegetical reading of the said passage with a special focus on what and how the passage (or Paul in the passage) defined Christian worship and discussed about. At its conclusion, after some sporadic debates made on the famous "be filled" phrase of verse 18, this article concludes that true worship is a lifestyle that is always thankful and joyful to God by living a life in the Spirit after all.