Worship Quotables

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• The Lord’s House
  The church is the Lord’s house; the materials of it are all his own. Every lively stone in it is purchased with the price of the redeemer’s blood, “Ye are bought with a price.” The Lord is the architect of this spiritual edifice. He prepares the materials for it with his own gracious hands. Believers […]
• Get Out of the Way
  [Matthew] Westerholm [Professor of Worship at SBTS] likes to describe a worship leader the way John the Baptist described himself: not the bridegroom, but the friend of the bridegroom. The job is to get out of the way so two other parties can meet. “We are here to enable this connection to happen between Christ […]
• Worthy Materials
  In shaping worship, the question must always be, “Are these materials worthy of a big God?” —Ronald Byars, Christian Worship: Glorifying and Enjoying God, 112
• Worship Leads to Theology
  Of course our worship, like the well water we drink in my house, inevitably contains certain impurities. At times our worship, like that of the Samaritans, betrays the influences of our place and time-cultural contamination. So, just as theology leads to worship, so worship leads to further theologizing as we seek to correspond to God’s […]