Monday, May 23, 2005
WOWAW 1
That stands for “Words of Wisdom about Worship,” a new and hopefully recurring feature of this weblog. Wisdom about worship can come in the long chapters of eloquent books, or in the choice words of a succinct sentence or two. Both forms are found in Neal Plantinga and Sue Rozeboom’s Discerning the Spirits, from which our first WOWAW is taken:
Remember, worship is going on all the time in heaven, and when we worship we are joining that which is already happening, what has been called the communion of the saints.
-John Wimber, in Worship: Intimacy with God
• Listen to a reading of this quote(mp3)
by Nathan Bierma
Another excellent resources for wise words about worship is the Worship Quote of the Week website hosted by Carl Stam.
Dr. Stam’s quote this week is worth passing along here:
Most middle-class Americans tend to:
worship their work;
work at their play; and
play at their worship.That which we worship, we serve,
and that which we serve we will give our all --
heart, soul, mind and body.- Gordon Dahl, from WORK, PLAY, AND WORSHIP IN A LEISURE-ORIENTED SOCIETY, Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress, 1972.