Worship Weblog
Monday, June 06, 2005
WOWAW 3
To worship the Lord is—in the world’s eyes—a waste of time. ... By engaging in it, we don’t accomplish anything useful in our society’s terms. Worship ought not to be constructed in a utilitarian way. Its purpose is not to gain numbers nor for our churches to be seen as successful. Rather, the entire reason for our worship is that God deserves it. ... Worship is a royal waste of time, but indeed it is royal, for it immerses us in the regal splendor of the King of the cosmos. The churches’ worship provides opportunities for us to enjoy God’s presence in corporate ways that take us out of time and into the eternal purposes of God’s kingdom.
-Marva Dawn, A Royal ‘Waste’ of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World, Introduction
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by Kristen Verhulst
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