Few things challenge our pride more than the simplest summons to expressiveness. True worship humbles the heart. Isaiah, a member of the cultural, educated elite of Judah, demonstrates a childlike humility and teachability. His cry, without a vestige of style-consciousness, reveals an unreserved availability to God. Because of the importance of humility, years ago I began encouraging people to become more expressive, both vocally and physically, in worship.
Few things challenge our pride more than the simplest summons to expressiveness.
I carry no brief for orchestrated calisthenics in church, as though a set of exercises made for superior liturgy. I said gently. Why, I was hoping to kill it altogether. Only this will help them view God afresh and pave the way to deeply felt confession and purification. True worship sacrifices and then expects something from God .