One of the things that bothers me so about some of the Pentecostal way of worship is the need for the person experiencing all of this to "feel something". When I speak to young people, it all comes back to "me". I grew up as a preacher's child and worship was not something that had to be felt everytime I entered the building. What I had to do was to listen and try to find something that would cause me to "think". Worship was not a performance to keep me interested; I knew what worship meant to me and I still do. I guess that is why it is so difficult for me to feel comfortable in the pew any longer when I feel that everything else is more important than the words of the preacher or that I know that what the preacher says is more designed to keep his salary intact. I am pessimistic about the turn of the modern way worship.
Hence I shall provide a way for myself to ensure that I meet God in my own worship.
Benson ways that prayer is more like weeding a flower bed and taking care of the yard. Hours of drudgery and monotonomy are overcome so that for one moment or one week, you can see the beauty of the garden and know that you had a hand in the making of the garden. He says there is a "blessed ordinariness in the "daily office".
I like this paragraph: "There is a temptation for all of us to feel as though worship is not really worth much unless we are personally moved by it. If we are not emotionally touched, then our worship does not seem spiritual to us. It helps to remember that liturgy is the work of the people, not the magic "wand of God."
VERSICLE: "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Ps. 100
...For the Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth to all generaions."
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