“Yes, well, what has replaced the focus on God and the radical, down-on-your-face spirit of worship in so many of our evangelical churches, is the sense that worship is something exuberant. It will command attention. It is something special. It will draw people in. It is a kind of exuberance that makes for shallowness because it makes for externality. People will say ‘in praise of God’ and ‘for the glory of God,’ but it’s external. I think that in contemporary evangelical worship there is often an element of showing off, which is external. Pride is the disposition controlling the heart, but
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