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Is our worship incomplete?

From Leadership Journal…

Worship is often equated with joy and celebration. It’s a kind of pep rally to inspire thanksgiving and excitement about who God is. While this is a legitimate aspect of worship, it is incomplete.

This comes into full relief when we consider the experience of my friend and even more so when we read the book of Psalms as a record of ancient worship and a rich resource for our worship today.

An important pattern in the psalms is that they repeatedly employ a narrative arc, a movement from grief and lamentation to celebration and joy. This pattern is strikingly absent in many worship services today. We tend to deny our suffering in favor of celebration.

Read the whole piece at http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/2007/002/17.64.html

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    Oeland

    When I worked in Mexico City one summer (colleg) the church that hosted me was Pentecostal. But, unlike anything I had seen in the US, twice that summer they ditched their program on Sunday to have a time or repentance, weeping, and reconciliation.

    It was amzing and moving to me. And I have only seen one American church do this since. That church repented for two years – and then revival followed.

    I agree that God is interested in more than one emotion, or theological point of view. He wants ALL of us. But are we – am I – ready to give it all up?

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