The ultimate challenge of worship in spirit and truth—worship that pleases God—is not “How do I make a church meeting God-centered?’ but “How do I make my life God-centered?”
00782 – A God-Centered Life
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00780 – Preferring Piety Over Spirituality?
The contemporary obsession with spirituality, among Christians and pagans alike, surely betokens something worthy of the church’s attention. I am not convinced, however, that the current vogue for spirituality should be embraced without making important historical and...
00773 – Meaningful Liturgy Can Make Life Better
I hope we do not come to the liturgy as spectators, nor for entertainment or even refreshment, though on occasion it will no doubt provide us amply with both. Rather liturgy should be the simple and powerful effort of people in the midst of life to keep festival in...
00772 – Worship: Not Just a Weekly Ritual
Worship is a soundtrack for the rest of life, the words and music and actions of worship inside the sanctuary playing the background as we live our lives outside, in the world… The words of worship are like stones thrown into the pond; they ripple outward in countless...
00768 – The Whole Life of the Universe is Worship
Worship, in all its grades and kinds, is the response of the creature to the Eternal; nor need we limit this definition to the human sphere. There is a sense in which we may think of the whole life of the Universe, seen and unseen, conscious and unconscious, as an act...
00764 – Biblical Worship: Antidote to Individual Loneliness
Modern-day individualism has diminished and diluted the communal emphasis in Scripture. Piety has become compartmentalized, relegated to a private personal pocket of life. The result is a religious consumerism which describes worship as “attending the church of your...
00738 – Worship and God’s People
Worship, embracing both adoration and action, is nothing but the outworking of God-centeredness in the individual and corporate life of God’s people. from Worship: Adoration and Action
00734 – Worship is a Verb
The focus of worship is not human experience, not a lecture, not entertainment, but Jesus Christ: His life, death, and resurrection. Worship is a verb. It is not something done to us or for us, but by us. from Worship is a Verb
00731 – Wider and Transformed Worship
In all its elements,…Christian worship is the action of God, of Jesus, and of the community itself for the community, and therefore the upbuilding of the community. From this center, it can and should spread out into the wider circle of the everyday life of Christians...
00727 – Worship: Not Based on Exit Polls
Worship that is shaped by a consumerist mentality becomes dependent on exit polls to see if its people will continue to want its product. In a “feel-good” culture, people want less emphasis on sin and sacrifice and more on blessing and abundance. Failure to deliver...