Festival of FW ‘06: Michael Card on “Worship in the Wilderness”
This morning Michael Card gave an impassioned presentation on the lost language of lament in worship, based on his book A Sacred Sorrow: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament.
Lament comprises the largest number of Psalms—“the worship book of the Bible”—Card pointed out. And yet, too often our worship has the spirit of “a picnic on a green lawn.”
The presence of lament in the Psalms is uplifting, Card said. “I struggle with disappointments, anger, and frustrations. When I read the Psalms, I see that that’s what God wants me to give [in worship],” Card said. Psalm 51 calls for a broken, contrite spirit.
“This is another way of looking at worship that we don’t have in American Christianity, that is so thoroughly biblical,” Card said.
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