“True worship is easy to talk about but difficult to come by in the self-made world of church success.  Too often we worship our methodologies while feigning devotion to God.  And when we do this, our pride and self-reliance belie a humanism more secular and infinitely more grotesque than anything we abhor in the world.  In the midst of the present evangelical worship void, we need to be asking ourselves these questions: Can we who have become so self-reliant submit all that we are, all that we know, and all that we can accomplish to God’s greater will?  Can we cease our target practice long enough to give God the worship, honor, and praise God alone deserves?  In the final analysis, we are either Davids, worshipers with ready slingshots, or slingshot experts with just enough worship to make us acceptably pious.  There is no doubt which one God prefers.”

c. 1995, 1999 Sally Morgenthaler

Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI  49530

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