Speaking Out of Turn
Monday, March 31st, 2008 : By Kevin Schultz
Ron Man at blog.worship.com has written a great post regarding how followers of Christ should approach our Sunday gatherings. I think this is a great reminder of why we get together on Sunday mornings. Here’s just a sample of the post:
Our worship is an obedient response to God’s invitation. We may invoke God to bless our worship and to make his presence known. But in a greater sense we cannot invite God to be present in our worship; He never left—we did! Rather it is God who invites us to worship. It is his Word which tells us to “Come, let us worship and bow down. . . .” God has revealed himself to us and has established a relationship with us by his power and grace. God delights in that relationship and desires (and deserves) our worship as a means of affirming and strengthening our relationship with him. “Worship the Lord with gladness,” says the psalmist, “come before Him with joyful songs” (Ps. 100:2). Coming to God is not an option for Christians but rather our obedient response to God’s gracious invitation.
To read the entire post and make sense of my blog title, click here.
HT: blog.worship.com
About The Author
Kevin Schultz is the Music Director at Grace Fellowship. Way back in 1982, his mom got him guitar lessons and he's been playing ever since. Along the way Kevin picked up playing bass while dabbling in keys, drums, and mandolin. When he's not with instrument in hand, Kevin manages IT support for the world's greatest soup company. Kevin and his vivacious wife Tracy are training up their own Partridge Family: Noah, Kassidy, Timothy, and Caroline.
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