Worship Quotables

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• The Dialogue of Worship
  Too often worship is approached from the dimension of man and what he may get out of it.  Certainly man does stand to profit from worship but to approach it from this direction is to miss it altogether.  Worship is offered to God for God’s sake, and yet God works in worship for man’s sake.  […]
• Interceding for Us
  The benefits of Jesus’ intercession are twofold: first, His intercession insures the final salvation of believers (“those who draw near,” Hebrews 7:25).  Second, His intercession provides daily help to believers.  According to 2:17-18 Jesus is able to help His brethren in their temptations to sin and unbelief.  In 4:14-16 the readers are encouraged to draw […]
• All Generations
  “This is not your grandfather’s church,” announced by the leadership of one “conservative” denomination. This is an arresting claim. Why is it not his church? Whose church is it? Is he not welcome? Should he not belong?  —Terry L. Johnson, “Catholicity and Intergenerational Worship,” 12 Kings of the earth and all peoples,princes and all rulers […]
• The Church Manifested
  When the church assembles for communal worship, she does what she was called into existence to do.  The church exists to worship God in Christ.  It is in this sense that, in enacting the liturgy, she actualizes herself; and in actualizing herself, she manifests herself. —Nicholas Wolterstorff, The God We Worship,  11