Answer # 12

If you worship Jesus, you almost automatically acknowledge the Father at the same time, and vice versa. When Jesus' disciples didn't quite understand Christ's relationship to His Father, He explained it this way: "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me" (John 14:6).

Christ and the Father are one (John 10:30). And Christ Himself commands us to give God the Father the preeminence by praying to the Father (Matt. 6:9), even though we pray in Jesus' name (John 16:23).

So we should worship both God the Father and Jesus Christ as members of the God Family - one as our Father and the other as our Savior and High Priest.