A Call to Worship

For many of us as Christians, we don’t have a knowledge problem; we have an impact problem.  So when we get together, it should be less to learn and more to enable what we have learned to make a real difference.  I can learn online; but I can’t worship online, so that is one thing we need to do when we gather with others.

“You are going to worship something,
and you are going to serve what you worship.”
(Brian Zahnd)

Pastor Brian Zahnd asks: “Can we skip the formal aspect of worship (prayer and praise and song and just proclaiming: ‘God, you’re great! We worship you’) and just do justice and mercy instead? I don’t think so. We need the spiritual formation that comes from prayerful worship.  Part of humility is to acknowledge through worship that God is God and we are not. Your soul will get ‘bent out of shape by society’s pliers’ if you never express in prayer and language: ‘God, I worship you. I praise you. God, I give you thanks. Creator of all things, blessed be your holy name.’ If we don’t ever do that, then our soul is going to be malformed.  It’s as we love God with all of our hearts soul mind and strength in prayerful worship that we are formed into the kind of people that can love our neighbours as ourselves.” Extract from https://wolc.com/watch–listen/sermon-archives/gotta-serve-somebody-bob-dylan/ ; based on the challenge of Joshua 24:15 (“… if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve … But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord”); which is hammered home in Bob Dylan’s “You gotta serve somebody” https://open.spotify.com/track/760420tYNmNjFgi8bWvbop?si=uz3OaMGJQJCg7EyZEXtpwQ&dl_branch=1