Theology of Worship

 

Interface Worship Theology

Worship cannot be other than God initiated and God enabled. Both His call and our response originate in Him. And so we see worship as gift. Gift that we treasure, protect, enhance, and are thankful for, for this gift brings us life. Life through encounter with Jesus Christ as desired by the Father and enabled by the Spirit; life that is aided by the Church and guided by Scripture. Life that is to be shared, lest we are unfaithful to our call and deplete its abundance.

 

And yet we thirst. We thirst, for this gift of abundant life draws us to desire the Giver of Life, who in re-creating us in His own image, grows in us His own insatiable desire for relationship; relationship that entails responsibility as well as love, for worship continuously releases us to individuation and our vocations, and yet at the same time is always drawing us into deeper unity with God and His Church. And so we see worship as Trinitarian in nature and effect.

 

Worship is the gift of life brought about in and through Jesus Christ in all his manifestations that draws us into desiring God, sharing the Gospel and a Trinitarian expression of all our relationships.

 

Copyright 2008 James A. Robertson