Worship isn’t just a religious reality, it’s a human reality. Every life is turned towards its strongest desires and highest loves with devoted expectation and hope. The West may feel it has dethroned the divine, but it has merely deified its desires. The modern temple can be found everywhere. The question is not whether you worship, but what you worship.
For Christians, our lives are worship. Romans 12:1-2 illustrates vividly: ‘Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.’ Forget a sacrifice, we are the sacrifice. There’s so much we can say about a whole-life-of-worship. But here we’ll focus on the spiritual practice of worship through music. Read more here