Quotes about Worship

The priest's work, the priest's service, was understood as an act of worship. This was God's desire at Sinai - that everybody would understand their roles as priests. Thst everybody would worship God by serving each other.

This God disrupts the familiarity of the story by interrupting the sacrifice. Picture an early audience gasping. What? This God stopped the sacrifice? The gods don't do that! Second, the God in this story provides. Worship and sacrifice was about you giving to the gods. This story is about this God giving to Abraham. A God who does the giving? A God who does the providing?

No deity that ruled with fear and torment could win the hearts of its followers. They became animals themselves, thinking of baser and baser modes of worship until they threw their very infants to the flames. Only in Jesus was submission perfected, God made man. And through Jesus, man committed his heart to the only entity worthy of service—

I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us.

Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

When it comes to responding to Jesus, I find it's important to distinguish between reverence, religion, and relationship.

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

Christianity is not a religion, it's a relationship with God through Christ.

One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.