Worship Quotables

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• All of Grace
  The glory of the gospel is that God has declared Christians to be rightly related to Him in spite of their sin. But our greatest temptation and mistake is to try to smuggle character into His work of grace. How easily we fall into the trap of assuming that we can only remain justified so […]
• Gathered by God
  How can human beings dare to expect the divine presence to be available on demand each Sunday morning? There is something very presumptuous in this. Yet this is not quite as daring as it might seem, so long as we see the gathering as a gathering by God of worshippers who truly seek to worship. […]
• Enacting Theology
  In essence, liturgy is an act of theology, an act whereby the believing Church addresses God, enters into a dialogue with God, makes statements about its belief in God and symbolizes this belief through a variety of means. —Kevin Irwin, Context and Text: Method in Liturgical Theology, 44
• Whole-Hearted Worship
  Wholeheartedness is not easy to maintain and the Chronicler recognizes this. However, God is a God of grace and assists us where we lack. Notice in David’s last prayer in Chronicles that he includes a request for God’s help in this regard: “O YHWH, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, keep this desire […]