This quote (formatting mine) was taken from Warren Wiersbe’s book “Real Worship”, and was itself a quote from another author, William Temple. We find it hard to define worship, to understand it. We pigeonhole our worship into 15 to 30 minutes on any given Sunday morning when we actually make time in our busyness to go to church, but that is so very insufficient!<\/p>\n
“… worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is<\/p>\n
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- the quickening of conscience by His holiness<\/em>;<\/li>\n
- the nourishment of mind with His truth<\/em>;<\/li>\n
- the purifying of imagination by His beauty<\/em>;<\/li>\n
- the opening of the heart to His love<\/em>;<\/li>\n
- the surrender of will to His purpose<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u2014and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin. Yes\u2014worship in spirit and truth is the way to the solution of perplexity and to the liberation from sin.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Worship is so much more than the songs we sing, whether current top of the chart hits or hundreds of years old. Worship is not the gift we put in the plate on Sunday, but the gift we offer daily, of our whole life. Worship is, as Paul says in Romans 12, “… (presenting our) bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God; this is your true worship.” Worship, as Paul goes on to say, is the transforming, the renewing, of our minds, so we will not be conformed to what surrounds us.<\/p>\n
O come, let us adore Him!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This quote (formatting mine) was taken from Warren Wiersbe’s book “Real Worship”, and was itself a quote from another author, William Temple. We find it hard to define worship, to understand it. We pigeonhole our worship into 15 to 30 minutes on any given Sunday morning when we actually make time in our busyness to… <\/p>\n