Worship Quotables

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• Free Gift
  How many religions in the world work: human beings are in a bartering relationship with the gods: first I offer a sacrifice that the god desires, and then I can hope to receive the God’s help as a consequence. We trade. . . .The Bible picture of human beings is not as wheelers and dealers […]
• To ponder . . .
  [Most] contemporary worship songs come from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, even while most of the growth in the church is happening in Asia, South America, and Africa. —Glenn Stallsmith, “Languages of Worship: Four Liturgical Theologies,” Ethnodoxology Volume 12 (2024), https://artsandchristianfaith.org/index.php/journal/article/view/209
• Imperfect Praise
  Wir preisen, was er an uns hat getan.We praise what He has done for us.Muss gleich der schwache Mund von seinen Wundern lallen,Even if our weak mouths have to babble about His wonders,So kann ein schlechtes Lob ihm dennoch wohlgefallen.yet imperfect praise can still please Him. —J. S. Bach, Cantata No. 51 “Jauchzet Gott in […]
• Worship Not a Work
  Both revelation and response, both proclamation and prayer, are gifts of divine grace. . . . Only God can effect perception of the revelation of God. Only God can grant communion with God. Only by the Spirit do we confess Jesus as Lord. The human self cannot achieve these lofty ends. . . . The trinitarian formula [we […]