If one worships by adopting prescribed postures of worship, and going through all the prescribed motions while reciting all the prescribed prayers, and does so in hopes of reward, then one is not really worshipping at all. Rather, those who “worship” in such a way are really just doing business as usual, trying to cut themselves the best deal.
Read moreIdol Worship, Idle Worship (3): God in Community
Worship, true worship, is always idle. It belongs to the sheer idleness of life simply to be lived, and given to us that it might be lived abundantly: life to be celebrated, not circulated. When we worship truly, which means when we worship God and not some idol, we take ourselves out of circulation.
Read moreIdol Worship, Idle Worship (1): The Trauma of Idolatry
Whoever does not worship God worships an idol, and whoever does not worship an idol worships God. God is the trauma of idolatry.
Read more