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Superior Worship
worship as superior to another. SUPERIOR WORSHIP The Scriptures include or allude to just about every approach to worship there is: organized, spontaneous, public, private, simple, complex, ornate or plain. Yet there is no comment anywhere about any one way being preferred over another. Rather, it is the spiritual condition of the worshiper that determines whether or not God is at work. This fact alone countermands the tendency to assume that if we could just find the correct or fashionably relevant system, all will be well and God will come down. This doesn't imply that we have no responsibility to make intelligent and sensitive choices or to be creative. But whatever these choices eventually are, they are incapable all by themselves of establishing the superiority of one system over another. -Harold Best, in MUSIC THROUGH THE EYES OF FAITH, chapter 7, "The Nature of Worship, Faith, Grace, and Music Making," Harper Collins, 1993, p. 146. Have a great week, Chip Stam |