Interesting thoughts. I heard an interesting lecture recently on why we go to church – we go to worship. And what is worship? This speaker took the idea of God calling us to live worshipful lives and applied it to church. For example, a service might open with a formal “call to worship” (usually a few verses which refer to God’s people meeting together), then the congregation sings a joyful response. We read some form of the Law (Exodus 20, a psalm, some other form), and we respond to this message from God by confessing that we don’t live up to His demands. The whole service becomes a conversation between God and His people – He initiates, and we respond.
David frequently uses his psalms to express a longing for God’s word—almost as if he spent all day anticipating evening devotions. Would we have the same eager anticipation for church if it indeed kindled in us the same hunger for Good News?
Liv
Mar 27 2002
07:21 am
Interesting thoughts. I heard an interesting lecture recently on why we go to church – we go to worship. And what is worship? This speaker took the idea of God calling us to live worshipful lives and applied it to church. For example, a service might open with a formal “call to worship” (usually a few verses which refer to God’s people meeting together), then the congregation sings a joyful response. We read some form of the Law (Exodus 20, a psalm, some other form), and we respond to this message from God by confessing that we don’t live up to His demands. The whole service becomes a conversation between God and His people – He initiates, and we respond.
David frequently uses his psalms to express a longing for God’s word—almost as if he spent all day anticipating evening devotions. Would we have the same eager anticipation for church if it indeed kindled in us the same hunger for Good News?