Is there a sense of urgency in your church's worship service? Is there a sense that large, eternal things hang in the balance with the preaching of the Word? Or is there a rather easy, breezy feel to it all- even an amusing feel to everything. Is there an overarching desire to make everyone comfortable? Or does it have both gladness and gravity? Joy (not "fun") and soul gripping seriousness?
Dan Phillips over at Pyromaniacs blog has nailed it with these comments about worship and the Word.....
comes straight from the Greek krisis, which means judgment. God's word is living, powerful, unimaginably sharp, and it judges us (Hebrews 4:12).Jesus' words judge us (John 12:48). Angels apparently watch (1 Corinthians 11:10;Ephesians 3:10; 1 Timothy 5:21), and wonder (1 Peter 1:12). Souls hang in the balance, lives are at unknown crossroads. This tidy fellow may be on the verge of a heart-attack; that polite couple could be headed for divorce; this young single might be hovering at the brink of a terrible decision; that young lady could be desperately snared in the jaws of a deep, dark, papered-over depression....
It's not teatime on the deck of some luxury cruiser. It ain't Oprah. It's strategy-time, for soldiers under fire, in the midst of a war.
It's not teatime on the deck of some luxury cruiser. It ain't Oprah. It's strategy-time, for soldiers under fire, in the midst of a war.
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