Worship Weblog
Monday, June 13, 2005
WOWAW 4
This week’s Words of Wisdom About Worship:
Worship does more than inspire us; it transforms us. It changes the way we live, changes the way we view life’s challenges, changes what truly matters to us, changes the way we see ourselves and others. If worship is only a way to get pumped up so that we can ‘keep on keeping on,’ then worship can too easily be reduced to a means to perpetuate the way we are already living. But worship is more than spiritual motivation. It is about vision and hearing, and worship gives us new eyes and ears, a new set of lenses to look at the world, a new vocabulary allowing us to listen afresh and speak what we could not have said before. To see and hear differently is to live differently, to have the ways we think and feel, make decisions and act as Christians transformed.
-Thomas Long, Testimony: Talking Ourselves into Being Christian, p.41
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by Nathan Bierma
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