But “belief” is not “worship,” and so Volf carefully spells out the meaning of “worship”: and here he departs from the populist mode of thinking, which sees worship as raising hands in a “worship” service and expands the word to its biblical proportions: it is how we live. What we worship and how we worship tell us who our God is. I totally agree with him here: our worship reveals our God.
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This is huge. In our culture of intellectual assent to a set of doctrines, or “feel-good” music sessions (commonly called worship!), we need to recapture the essence of worship. Someone may say they worship Jesus, but what does their life show? What does my life show? If it doesn't reflect Jesus, then something is wrong!
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4 comments:
But, if worship is how we live... then what do we do in the "worship service"?
-Alan
Alan,
Is that a rhetorical question?
James
James,
Not if you want to answer it. I just asked the same question on my blog when I linked to this post.
-Alan
Alan,
Saw your link; thanks! I would agree with you that corporate worship is how we live together on a daily basis. That can include singing—in my experience it usually does—but it certainly isn't limited to it!
James
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