WOWAW 15: ‘Worship extends beyond the bounds of the assembly’
This week’s Words of Wisdom About Worship:
Paul is quite clear in his reminder in Romans 12 that worship extends beyond the bounds of the assembly into acts of service in the world. . . . there is more to worship than merely performing rituals . . . Walls separating the sacred and the secular, which were torn down by Jesus, are raised by human hands when worshipers separate the ritual waters of baptism from the table fellowship acts of service in the world . . . In true and authentic worship of God there is a dialectical relationship rather than a dichotomy between faith and practice, justice and ritual action, theological talk and doxological living, and sanctification and human liberation.
- Melva Costen, African American Worship, Abingdon Press, 1993, p. 126; quoted here and here.
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