Simply Christian

a good quote from this N.T. Wright book....

pg148
You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you being to take on something of the character of the object of your worship....
So what happens when you worship the creator God whose plan to rescue the world and put it to rights has veeb accomplished by the Lamb who was slain? The answer comes in the second golden rule: because you were made in God's image, worship makes you more truly human. When you gaze in love and gratitude at the God in whose image you were made, you do indeed grow. You discover more of what it means to be fully alive.
Conversely, when you give that same total woship to anything or anyone else, you shrink as a human being. It doesn't, of course, feel like that at the time. when you worship part of the creation as though it were the Creator himself- in other words, when you worship an idol- you may well feel a brief "high." But, like a hallucinatory drug, that worship achieves its effect at a cost: when the effect is over, you are less of a human being than you were to being with. That is the price of idolatry...

Perhaps one of the reaons why so much worship, in some churches at least, appears unattractive to so many people is that we have forgotten, or covered up, the truth about the one we are worshipping.