Sublime

Worship isn’t just something we do; it is where God does something to us. Worship is the heart of discipleship because it is the gymnasium in which God retrains our hearts.

But if we recover a sense of the primacy of God’s action in worship—that worship is a site of gracious, divine initiative—then we might better understand how and why worship is the center of discipleship. We should approach the sanctuary with a different set of expectations—that we will be met and remade by a living, active Lord.

In worship we celebrate God, the Source of life. It’s the time in the week when we get it right for once, when we let God be God and dethrone our idols, chief of which is our own ego. Worship is what we exist for. I worship; therefore I am.