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Monday, October 03, 2005
WOWAW 16: Worship at the Hub
This week’s Words of Wisdom About Worship:
[Ursinus] wrote that “when anyone prays alone in his closet, the whole church prays with him in affection and desire.” And so, appropriately, the classic events by which a person attaches to Jesus Christ are corporate. The preaching of the gospel is a corporate event. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are church sacraments, intended to bind to Christ and each other a whole body of people who don’t necessarily even like each other very well. Some are originally Jews; others Greeks. Some lean left in their politics; others right. Some want pipe organs; others, guitar amps. Some want a projection screen; others, hymnbooks. Like spokes, the only place these folks fit together is at the hub. Somehow, they must all fit ‘into’ Christ. This can be accomplished only by, in, and through the Holy Spirit. As Lewis Smedes once put it, ‘the Spirit is the living contact between the victorious Jesus and all who are united with Him.’
- Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., and Sue Rozeboom, Discerning the Spirits (p.102)
More on the meaning of corporate worship
• Listen to a reading of this quote(mp3)
by Nathan Bierma
Earlier: WOWAW 15
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