Behind the Curtain: Part II

The person who lives a just and holy life is one who is a sound judge of these things. He is also a person who has ordered his love, so that he does not love what it is wrong to love, or fail to love what should be loved, or love too much what should be loved less (or love too little what should be loved more), or love two things equally if one of them should be loved either less or more than the other, or love things either more or less if they should be loved equally.

Augustine

Singing has always been a striking feature of the worship of God’s Old Testament and New Testament people. This is not true of other religions. Many use repetitive chants. In some, clergy sing. But generally, the religions of the world are grim. It is only in biblical religion that the people of God are characteristically joyful and express their joy in great singing… Why is this? Obviously because Christianity is itself joyous. It is a response to the great acts of God on our behalf, particularly in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which secured our salvation.

James Montgomery Boice

Any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by (song) worship is not ready for heaven.

A.W. Tozer

To enjoy worship for its own sake, or simply out of a cultural appreciation of the ‘performance’…would be like Moses coming upon a burning bush and deciding to cook his lunch on it.

N.T. Wright