Sometimes, when I think of the "worship wars" of our day, I try to imagine similar arguments going on at the foot of Mount Sinai when the children of Israel had fled Egypt, the waters had parted into a temporary expressway, Pharaoh and his army had been drowned, the mountain was smoking and trembling, and the people were told to gather for worship.
-- I don't like this worship. I like that tambourine song that Miriam sang after we crossed the Red Sea. How come we don't do that song anymore?
-- This service is too long. Three days is inconvenient. I'm going with the Hittites, they do two-day theophanies.
-- I like it when Aaron leads worship. How come Moses has to be the worship leader? His vestments don't speak to my generation.
I suspect that when the Israelites gathered for worship, they trembled and shook along with the mountain because they had staked everything on this God.
-- John Ortberg in If You Want to Walk on Water, You've Got to Get Out of the Boat
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