tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9235171.post6840385670387249358..comments2023-08-27T00:21:33.491+09:00Comments on Reflections of Refinement: Finding Worship in the shallow endBlue Kohakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03228944400362275140noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9235171.post-52125728511511152012011-06-08T23:31:07.583+09:002011-06-08T23:31:07.583+09:00Worship is how you make it in your heart. Whether...Worship is how you make it in your heart. Whether you are in a church or not. The new testament started the whole church idea. A gathering of people to read the word of God.<br />They worshipped there in good company together. However, worship is in your heart. You can go to church and not have the heart for worship. Many Christians go to church because they know it's church time, and sometimes that leads to lethargy in worship.Wade Harmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14691982892918137754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9235171.post-86833292185993431692011-06-07T21:16:45.325+09:002011-06-07T21:16:45.325+09:00Externals are not what give depth, virtue, or any ...Externals are not what give depth, virtue, or any other kind of greatness. If your heart was open to God, and you lived being mindful of Him, than surely you have worshiped. Whose heart is more closely aligned with God, the one who can only worship buoyed on the emotions of others and the external fixtures of a church, or the one who worships in the midst of many externals? <br />Corporate worship has its place, but what matters is your heart. <br />""The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament."- Brother Lawrence-Elizabethnoreply@blogger.com