Authentic Worship

(NOTE: The devotion for today will be late as it is still being worked on! But until then, here is something worth reading.)

Dr. Albert Mohler has started a series of posts on his blog/commentary titled: "The Whole Earth Is Full of His Glory: The Recovery of Authentic Worship." Not only is this well worth the read, it NEEDS to be read.

Here is an excerpt from the article that quotes AW Tozer on worship:

We have the breezy, self-confident Christians with little affinity for Christ and His cross. We have the joy-bell boys that can bounce out there and look as much like a game show host as possible. Yet, they are doing it for Jesus' sake?! The hypocrites! They're not doing it for Jesus' sake at all; they are doing it in their own carnal flesh and are using the church as a theater because they haven't yet reached the place where the legitimate theater would take them.

It is now common practice in most evangelical churches to offer the people, especially the young people, a maximum of entertainment and a minimum of serious instruction. It is scarcely possible in most places to get anyone to attend the meeting where the only attraction is God. One can only conclude that God's professed children are bored with Him for they must be wooed to meeting with a stick of striped candy in the form of religious movies, games and refreshments.

Mohler notes in concluding this first of three parts:

Where shall we turn for instruction on how we ought to worship? There is only one place we can turn, and that is to the Word of God. The norm of our worship must be the Word of God--this Word that He has spoken. As we turn to this Word, we do see a pattern of worship, a pattern that is replicated throughout the fabric of Scripture from beginning to the end.

Click here to read Part One.

More Later,
~pastorway