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Revelation and Response
REVELATION AND RESPONSE The distinctive genius of corporate worship is the two-beat rhythm of revelation and response. God speaks; we answer. God acts; we accept and give. God gives; we receive. As a corollary to this picture, worship implies a code word for man’s offering to God: SACRIFICE. The worshiper is not a passive, motionless recipient, but an active participant, called upon to "make an offering." — Ralph Martin, THE WORSHIP OF GOD: SOME THEOLOGICAL, PASTORAL, AND PRACTICAL REFLECTIONS, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982, page 6. ISBN: 0802819346. I also strongly suggest this same author’s WORSHIP IN THE EARLY CHURCH, Eerdmans, 1974. Here are several previously released WORSHIP QUOTES that feature this idea that worship is "revelation and response." www.wqotw.org/WQOTW/1998_WQs/WQ033198.txt (Donald Hustad) www.wqotw.org/WQOTW/1998_WQs/WQ041498.txt (Price and Furr) www.wqotw.org/WQOTW/2001_WQs/WQ03202001.txt (Timothy George) Have a great week, Chip Stam Director, Institute for Christian Worship School of Church Music and Worship Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Louisville, Kentucky www.carlstam.org www.sbts.edu |