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Our Worship as God's Response to Himself A week or so ago I made a claim some may have balked at. I even wondered myself if I had committed heresy. Here's basically what I said:
Worship, in my understanding, is God's response to Himself through his Son by his Spirit in and with his people. Isn't this what it means that we are created for the praise of his glory? For us to worship is to be swept up in a participatory fashion into the Trinitarian movement of Love. Our participation is a gift not from us but to us and through us. We don't bring the gift. We bring ourselves as an offering-- bodies coming together as a living sacrifice. God brings the rest. Listen to our friend, the late Bob Weber, on this point:
Worship is not that which I do, but that which is done in me. That is, worship, which reveals Christ, forms me by making me aware that Jesus is my spirituality and that worship is to form my spiritual life into the pattern of living into the death and resurrection of Jesus.
Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative. (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2008), 93.
If Christ is "in me" and "in you" does it not make sense that he adores the Father through us-- that our worship is not so much about "our response" but his supernatural Love moving in and through us?
A friend shared this metaphor with me the other day that captures it. We've all seen children put their feet on their parents shoes and hold on while the parent walks around. In worship, it is as though we are putting our feet on the feet of Jesus while he dances with the Father and the Spirit.
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posted by John David Walt | at 2/22/2009 03:01:00 AM | 19 comments
Monday, October 27, 2008
Worship Quote of the Week
Consider this word below from the late Bob Webber. Think particularly about the implications it has for worship and mission.
God’s vision for the world is remembered and anticipated in worship. Worship is all about how God, [who] with his own two hands—the incarnate Word and the Holy Spirit—has rescued the
world. . . . The centerpiece of his saving action is the incarnation, death, and resurrection, where sin and death have been defeated and where the deliverance of creatures and creation, which will be consummated at the end of history, will begin. In the meantime, worship is the witness to this vision.
Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative. (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2008), 66.
I'm curious as to what you make of this notion of the Son and the Spirit being the two hands of the Father.
Labels: quotes, trinity, worship
posted by John David Walt | at 10/27/2008 07:21:00 AM | 6 comments
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