The Worship Quote of the Week for (04/27/1999):

Everyone Needs God TIme Do you have time in your life for God? Is there enough quiet to hear the voice of the Almighty? Today's WORSHIP QUOTE offers a challenge to our hectic, clock-watching, often Godless schedules. EVERYONE NEEDS GOD TIME Because He is not temporally pushy about His agenda, God is too easy to forget. He just waits . . . and waits. What does He think of efficient" prayers? What happened to the "Be still and know that I am God" times? Societies that have the accelerator to the floor are doomed to become God-less. Speed does not yield devotion. . . . . The clock and Christ are not close friends. Imagine what God thinks of us now that we are so locked into schedules that we have locked ourselves out of the Sermon on the Mount - it is hardly possible to walk a second mile today without offending one's pocket calendar. We jump at the alarm of a Seiko but sleep through the call of the Almighty. - Richard M. Swenson, MARGIN: RESTORING EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, FINANCIAL, AND TIME RESERVES TO OVERLOADED LIVES, NavPress, 1992, p. 154. [For another stinging challenge to our clock-dominated lives, see this scripture parody from the WORSHIP QUOTE archives. "The clock is my shepherd, I shall not rest."] <> Have a great week, Chip Stam Pastor of Worship and Music Chapel Hill Bible Church Chapel Hill, North Carolina