“Worship is a weekly opportunity to practice not being God.”
“If we stay away from worship too long, we start to make God into our own image. The privatization of our spiritual journey only transforms God to be virtually anything we want. Once back in the habit and flow of worship, however, and surrounded by a mix of people who don’t mirror every fact of our life, something delightful happens. We discover God to be quietly remaking us into God’s own image. We encounter a rhythm stronger than our heartbeat. We find ourselves full of more joy than we can contain.”
These are the words of Pastor Peter W. Marty from the series “A Lutheran Christian Life for Today” titled “Praise in an awe-deficient world” (The Lutheran; January, 2011, page 3). Marty is Pastor at St. Paul Lutheran Church of Davenport, IA. You can find Marty’s whole article on the Lutheran Magazine Website.
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