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Wonder in Worship
and description. Today's WORSHIP QUOTE is a short reflection on "wonder" in worship. WONDER IN WORSHIP Wonder is a deep, profound experience. The typical secular education of our day makes us suspicious or callous to wonder. It seems so unscientific, so unsophisticated, and ultimately, so seemingly unnecessary. So they say. But to lose the sense of wonder is to lose one of the great beauties of life. Worship, on the other hand, exercises our sense of wonder. It helps us see things and hear things and feel things, that not everyone recognizes. Worship, in essence, is wonderful. - Hughes Oliphant Old, in "Enter into His Courts with Praise: Worship Fills Us with Wonder," WORSHIP LEADER , Vol. 8, No. 4, July/August 1999. For subscription information, contact 800-286-8099. Hughes Oliphant Old, formerly pastor of Faith Presbyterian Church in West Lafayette, Indiana, currently teaches worship at Princeton Theological Seminary. [Indeed, our magnificent God is wonderful; and may our worship of Him be wonder-full. One final comment on "wonder" from Calvin (not John Calvin): "That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder." - Calvin & Hobbes] Have a great week, Chip Stam Pastor of Worship and Music Chapel Hill Bible Church Chapel Hill, North Carolina |