“Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.” (John 4:23 NIV)
One thing my experience has taught me is that you have to bring something to the sermon to get something out of it. The expression is familiar in the African American church: “If you don’t put anything in, you won’t get anything out!” And sometimes it is a mere openness to the Spirit. For worship is neither something that the clergy does and the people sit back and watch, nor something that is an optional activity for the people. Worship is work – hard, active, disciplined, and sometimes painful work that demands something from us as it gives something to us. That is literally what the word that the New Testament uses so often for worship, leitourgia, means – “the work of the people.”
-- Zan W. Holmes, Jr. in “Encountering Jesus”
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