Worship: What Good is it?
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If you want to pray
strategically, in a way which would please God, pray that God might
raise up men who would see the beauty of the Lord our God and would
begin to preach it and hold it out to people, instead of offering
peace of mind, deliverance from cigarettes, a better job and nicer
cottage... What good is all our busy religion if God isn't in it? What good is it if we've lost majesty, reverence, worship - an awareness of the divine? What good is it if we've lost a sense of the Presence and the ability to retreat within our own hearts and meet God in the garden? If we've lost that, why build another church? Why make more converts to an effete Christianity? Why bring people to follow after a Saviour so far off that He doesn't own them? We need to improve the quality of our Christianity, and we never will until we raise our concept of God back to that held by apostle, sage, prophet, saint and reformer. When we put God back where He belongs, we will instinctively and automatically move up again, that whole spiral or our religious direction will be upward. ('The Attributes of God' 194-195, This "Insight for Leaders" is taken by permission from the book, Tozer on Christian Leadership, published by Wingspread Publishers) |
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