The weekly worship service can be very effective in evangelism of non-Christians and in edification of Christians if it does not aim at either alone but is gospel centered and in the vernacular.
Timothy J. KellerTags: worship evangelism
God directs his people not simply to worship but to sing his praises “before the nations.” We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.
Timothy J. KellerTags: worship evangelism
Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship our work, work at our play, and play in our worship.
Leland RykenTags: work worship praise hymns
The main thing I worship is Nature !
Laure LacornetteThe solution to our human frailty is not to try harder, but to turn Godward.
Dillon BurroughsTags: worship god-s-will frailty
Our worship of God is not a part of our lives; worship is our lives.
Dillon BurroughsTags: worship
It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others.
Dillon BurroughsTags: compassion worship
Divine worship means the same thing where time is concerned, as the temple where space is concerned. "Temple" means... that a particular piece of ground is specially reserved, and marked off from the remainder of the land which is used either for agriculture or habitation... Similarly in divine worship a certain definite space of time is set aside from working hours and days... and like the space allotted to the temple, is not used, is withdrawn from all merely utilitarian ends.
Josef PieperTags: work sabbath worship utilitarianism temple festival
The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost. There is an entry in Baudelaire... "One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.
Josef PieperTags: leisure work despair worship boredom
Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.
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