Worship Quotables

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• We Are Priests
  Men become priests through the sacrifice of Christ, bought with his blood. The essential task of this priesthood is to offer worship; the main activity of the redeemed is the praise and adoration of God and the Lamb. —Ernest Best,,“Spiritual Sacrifice: General Priesthood in the New Testament,” Interpretation 14 (1960):280
• A Graced Response
  Worship is distinctively trinitarian, insofar as it is first and foremost what the Triune God does, and in this, Luther accentuates grace as the chief motive of worship. The worship of the Church is the communion of the holy Trinity with us his redeemed people. It is, Junghans writes appropriately of Luther, “above all the […]
• The Spirit’s Work in Us
  The Holy Spirit draws us into the Father’s bosom through Christ. The Spirit places us in Christ so that everything that the Son is and possesses via the joyous exchange is ours by faith. We in Christ are enabled to respond to God in praise because the Holy Spirit causes love for God to arise […]
• Divine Enablement
  I believe that by my own understanding or strength I cannot believe in Jesus Christ my Lord or come to him, but instead the Holy Spirit has called me through the gospel, enlightened me with gifts, made me holy and kept me in the true faith, just as he calls, gathers, enlightens, and makes holy […]