Worship Quotables

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• God with Us
  The foundation of Christian worship is the presence of God with His people. The words and actions by which He makes Himself known to them, and by which they express in their answering worship the knowledge of Him which He has given them, are charged with the divine life. —William Nicholls, Jacob’s Ladder: The Meaning […]
• 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