Worship Quotables

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• A Great Reversal
  At the root, then, of all idolatry is human rejection of the God-ness of God and the finality of God’s moral authority. The fruit of that basic rebellion is to be seen in many other ways in which idolatry blurs the distinction between God and creation, to the detriment of both. Idolatry dethrones God and […]
• Facing Up
  In gathering for worship we face up to who we really are and who God really is. —Christopher J. Ellis, Gathering: A Theology and Spirituality of Worship in Free Church Tradition, 4
• Worship in a Secular Age
  No, we do not need any new worship that would somehow be more adequate to our new secular world. What we need is a rediscovery of the true meaning and power of worship, and this means of its cosmic, ecclesiological, and eschatological dimensions and content. This, to be sure, implies much work, much “cleaning up.” […]
• The Paradox of the Psalms
  In expressing all the complexities and contradictions of human experience, the psalms act as good psychologists. They defeat our tendency to try to be holy without being human first. As British Benedictine Sebastian Moore has said, that “God behaves in the Psalms in ways he is not allowed to behave in systematic theology.” —Kathleen Norris, […]