Perhaps you've heard this challenging word about worship from author Annie Dillard (in Teaching a Stone to Talk), but hear it again:
"Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies' straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should all be wearing crash helmets. Ushers should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offense, or the waking god may draw us out to where we can never return."
In other words:
Worship is Dangerous.
Is worship a dangerous experience for you or
is it boring and not every entertaining?
Is worship a dangerous experience for you or
is it predictable, safe, and comfortable?
Is worship a dangerous experience for you or
an opportunity to be socialize, wear a new outfit, and catch up on local happenings?
Is worship a dangerous experience for you or
a memorial for those whose passion and adventurous spirit we admire but choose not to emulate?
If worship IS dangerous is it because of the message or the hearer?
If worship isn't dangerous is it because of the message or the hearer?
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