Vertical Church by James MacDonald

Author:James MacDonald
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Vertical Church, James MacDonald, Harvest, Walk in the Word, God's glory, biblical church
Publisher: David C Cook
Published: 2012-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

BEWARE DEFICIENT WORSHIP

My church of origin specialized in what I would now describe as “shoulders-up worship.” We sang hymns, lots of them, every verse, packed to the brim with mostly16 outstanding theology. The problem was that the worship was mostly intellectual. Great theology racing by us at a pace so dizzying that all we could express as we took our seats was effectively “that was all so true.” There was little “spirit” in our worship. We understood what we sang, we believed it and sought to fix our eyes upon it, but church was more like a recitation of the periodic table than a hand-over-heart, tearful rendition of the pledge of allegiance. Is God satisfied with that? I always thought He was, and I only knew people who agreed.

Though the Gospels give differing iterations of the Hebrew prayer found in Deuteronomy 6:5, calling us to love God with heart and soul, mind and strength, the exhortation is clearly to love God with our total being. Worship that engages God and brings glory down is whole-person worship, but I was already a Bible-college graduate before I experienced anything much beyond “shoulders-up” in relation to praising God.

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