Wow!! I have not posted since October. Well shame on me. There is no excuse except busyness, but that does not always suffice. But it will today. So on with the post.
I have a great quote to post. I have been doing a "guess the quote" thread on my facebook page but you will not guess this quote so I will give you the name of the author. Actually it is the same man as my last post, Peter White. His book "The Effective Pastor" is excellent. A ministry resource that ought to become a classic.
"This is what we aim to achieve in public worship: a people bowed in heart and spirit, in homage, adoration, love and fealty, before God in His glory. When God is being genuinely accorded the weight and worthiness that are His by His people, there is true worship."
That should suck the wind out of many a sail in the modern, and let's be fair, post-modern churches today. Is that what you expect when you gather together with the saints in a Sunday to worship? Most go to sing a few happy-clappy "love songs" to Jesus and then hope to get something out of the sermon. True worship does not exist in many a gathered body of believers, to the shame and added weakness of the church. We need a awakening of the majesty, justice, holiness, glory, grandeur, weight, mouth stopping awesomeness of God almighty.
So my prayer for myself and Sovereign Joy is that we would experience such an awakening by the moving of the Holy Spirit that we would come prepared to offer true worship to God when we gather together. For His glory and His great namesake.
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