Analogy

Worship Reorders the Center

biblical pattern of worship

In worship the scattered self is invited to remember who is at the center. The practice is not mainly emotional intensity. It is the repeated act of placing God where He belongs and letting everything else find its place relative to Him. Without that reordering, life drifts toward lesser centers.

How you’d preach it

Worship is not primarily about feeling. It is the re-centering of the self on God.

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