Discover the Mystery of Faith Quotes

“Perhaps part of the reason the Church is malnourished and our faith is anemic is because our worship services have become a theological Happy Meal.”
― Glenn Packiam, Discover the Mystery of Faith: How Worship Shapes Believing

“If our songs are juvenile, they may simply be a symptom of our adolescent faith. But maybe they are also part of the problem. Maybe our simplistic, peppy songs actually perpetuate our spiritual adolescence. That’s”
― Glenn Packiam, Discover the Mystery of Faith: How Worship Shapes Believing

“If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.… The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.10”
― Glenn Packiam, Discover the Mystery of Faith: How Worship Shapes Believing

“After decades of people never being taught how to pray, how to talk to the Creator and King of the world, we begin to pray in the language that comes most naturally. But selfishness is our mother tongue. Tell people to “pray what’s in their heart,” and they will pray selfishly. They will ask for stuff, and plead for more, and raise their hands to the sky to pull down an imaginary lever of prosperity, seeking satisfaction for their insatiable souls.”
― Glenn Packiam, Discover the Mystery of Faith: How Worship Shapes Believing

“N. T. Wright cheekily remarked that Jesus, in speaking of His death, did not give us an atonement theory; He gave us a meal.”
― Glenn Packiam, Discover the Mystery of Faith: How Worship Shapes Believing

“The object of our faith is a Person, not a proposition.”
― Glenn Packiam, Discover the Mystery of Faith: How Worship Shapes Believing

“In his instructions regarding Christian community, Bonhoeffer is his usual forceful self: If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.… The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.10”
― Glenn Packiam, Discover the Mystery of Faith: How Worship Shapes Believing

“When His disciples asked Him how to pray, He taught them. More than that: He gave them a prayer.”
― Glenn Packiam, Discover the Mystery of Faith: How Worship Shapes Believing

“The phrase lex orandi, lex credendi means, quite literally, “The rule of prayer is the rule of faith.” Maybe a better way to think of it is, “The way you pray and worship becomes the way you believe.”
― Glenn Packiam, Discover the Mystery of Faith: How Worship Shapes Believing

“a God you can explain is a God you can contain. And a God you can contain can’t be worshipped.”
― Glenn Packiam, Discover the Mystery of Faith: How Worship Shapes Believing

“Remember that as followers of Jesus we don’t gauge our success by results but by faithfulness to Jesus Christ and His remarkably different kingdom.”
― Glenn Packiam, Discover the Mystery of Faith: How Worship Shapes Believing