Given the biblical history, God’s commands, and the immeasurable benefits we receive from Word-centered worship, it’s worth asking why worship today is so often focused on sensory experiences, inward feelings, and subjective encounters. True worship is always a response to God’s Word. John Stott has said that to worship God is “to ‘Glory in his holy name’ (Psalm 105:3), that is, to revel adoringly in who he is in his revealed character.” Then he adds: God must speak to us before we have any liberty to speak to him. He must disclose to us who he is before we can offer him what we are in
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