Worship Quotables

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• Grace and Gratitude
  Grace is a distinctive figure of the biblical world. The notion that righteousness and God’s favor are not and cannot be earned revolutionizes the whole apparatus of religion. As opposed to salvation being earned (whether entirely or in part) and religious ethics being a code intended to help the religious observer to draw near to […]
• The Highest Activity
  “Let us worship God.” This is the summons to the highest activity of man, in which he opens his whole being to Almighty God in the fellowship of the Church. He then seeks no lesser end but this: to adore and enter into communion with his Maker and Saviour. And he brings with him to […]
• We Are Priests
  Men become priests through the sacrifice of Christ, bought with his blood. The essential task of this priesthood is to offer worship; the main activity of the redeemed is the praise and adoration of God and the Lamb. —Ernest Best,,“Spiritual Sacrifice: General Priesthood in the New Testament,” Interpretation 14 (1960):280
• A Graced Response
  Worship is distinctively trinitarian, insofar as it is first and foremost what the Triune God does, and in this, Luther accentuates grace as the chief motive of worship. The worship of the Church is the communion of the holy Trinity with us his redeemed people. It is, Junghans writes appropriately of Luther, “above all the […]