True worship flows from a heart fully surrendered to God. It’s not a transaction to earn His favor but a transformation that changes who we are. When we draw near to Him in sincerity, our rituals become revelation, and our traditions become truth alive. Message based on Matthew 15:1-20
Quotes:
Dallas Willard: The Bible uses the words "heart", "will", and "spirit" interchangeably. It's why when we say "His heart wasn't in it," or "he didn't have the will," or "he lost his spirit," we're saying the same thing.
William Temple: Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment if mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose — and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.
Jack Gray: Because when you are bumped you spill what you are full of...
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