Monday, October 11, 2010

Focus on Worship in Church or Life?

We have been reading for several weeks now from Burroughs' sermons about how we need to focus on the seriousness of our duties before the Lord. Peterson offers another perspective when he says, "When Christians become preoccupied with the notion of offering God acceptable worship in a congregational context and thus with the minutiae of church services, they need to be reminded that Paul's focus was on the service of everyday life" (187). He warns against introversion within the church and asserts that the preaching of the gospel is meant to bring about a "consecrated lifestyle" (a view which emphasizes the importance of the family, the workplace, and leisure activities as the sphere to have a 'genuine relationship with God'). Do these two points of emphasis contradict or can we reconcile them? If we can, how so?

No comments:

Post a Comment