Worship Quotables

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• It’s Covered!
  Fortunately, the Trinitarian logic of worship is true even when we don’t sing hymns to the Trinity or think much about Jesus’ work in perfecting our worship and the Spirit’s work in prompting it. —John Witvliet, “The Opening of Worship—Trinity” in Leanne Van Dyk, ed., A More Profound Alleluia: Theology and Worship in Harmony, 9 […]
• The God of History
  Any Deist can praise God for timeless attributes; it takes a Trinitarian Christian to praise God for particular, concrete actions in history. —John Witvliet, “The Opening of Worship—Trinity” in A More Profound Alleluia: Theology and Worship in Harmony, 16
• Balance Needed
  Richard Mouw wryly observes that “Christians play favorites with the members of the Trinity.” [in The God Who Commands, 150] This is especially clear in worship. In some churches, references to the Holy Spirit outdistance references to Jesus or to God the Father by ten to one. In others, Jesus is nearly the exclusive focus. […]
• The Essence of Worship
  Christ is the essence of worship, and our understanding of the Church’s worship must take its starting point from Him. In Him is embodied the downward movement of God’s love and grace, as He reveals Himself to man, and reconciles man to Himself; and also the upward movement of man’s response, perfectly dependent upon that […]