Worship Quotables

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• 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
• Worship Leads to Theology
  Of course our worship, like the well water we drink in my house, inevitably contains certain impurities. At times our worship, like that of the Samaritans, betrays the influences of our place and time-cultural contamination. So, just as theology leads to worship, so worship leads to further theologizing as we seek to correspond to God’s […]
• Musical Tastes
  Strongly held musical tastes run deep. Unfortunately, what is deep is not necessarily wide. One person’s musical appreciation often is exclusive (and sometimes hostile). Such hard-held opinions limit both the power of music and the power of God. —Marshall Shelley, “When Worship Styles Clash” in Changing Lives through Preaching and Worship, 379
• Real-World Worship
  In a quite proper concern for intimacy with God through Jesus, reality can be misrepresented—if sin is evaded and trivialized, God is shorn of his freedom and disruptive judgment and taken hostage to my emotional requirements. Most of us have attended services where we were invited to experience through music what Colin Gunton used to […]