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[Worship] WORSHIP QUOTE OF THE WEEK - Oct. 28, 1997
What happens when non-Christians visit Christ-centered services of worship?
How much of what we say and do is understandable to the "outsider"? Today's
WORSHIP QUOTE addresses this important question.
"WE MUST EXPECT SOME OF CHRISTIAN WORSHIP TO SEEM STRANGE, EVEN
UNINTELLIGIBLE, TO PEOLE WHO DO NOT KNOW CHRIST.
Certainly all people are worshipers by nature, the impulse to worship is
universal. But Christian worship is the worship of those who have died and
risen again to a brand-new life and way of living. In this new community
where Christ is head, things are different. Here people are less concerned
with finding their life than with losing it for Christ. Here meekness, not
muscle, is the mark of greatness. If the church is not radically different
from the world, something is radically wrong. To be salt and light in the
world implies a marked contrast between the way of life in the world and the
way of life in the church. Peter says that Christians are 'aliens and
strangers in the world.' (1 Peter 2:11). It follows, then, that Christian
worship will have its peculiarities."
--AUTHENTIC WORSHIP IN A CHANGING CULTURE, by the seven-member Worship Study
Committee for the 1997 Synod of the Christian Reformed Church, CRC
Publications, 1997. For information, call 1-800-333-8300.
[Highly recommended for worship planners, ministers, and church musicians.]
Have a great week,
Chip Stam
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