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Monday, October 31, 2005
WOWAW 19: Worship as God’s ‘language school for life’
This week’s Words of Wisdom About Worship:
The way we talk in worship affects the way we talk in the rest of our lives, and vice versa. In the place of worship, we cannot pray or sing faithfully without our words being full of the sorrows and joys of life. Conversely, the words of worship--prayer words, sermon words, hymn words, Bible words, creedal words, words of praise and penitence, protest and pardon--are like stones thrown into the pond; they ripple outward in countless concentric circles, finding ever fresh expression in new places in our lives.
Worship is, as I have said, a key element in the church’s ‘language school’ for life. The point is not to go through life speaking in a ‘stained-glass voice.’ The point is to let the language of worship shape our witness outside the sanctuary.
--Thomas G. Long, Testimony: Talking Ourselves into Being Christian, p.47
• Listen to a reading of this quote(mp3)
by CICW’s Nathan Bierma
Earlier: WOWAW 18
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