Sometimes it is better to rest on the words of another. In defining worship I have found few as complete as that of William Temple,the Archbishop of Canterbury. With this Sunday being our declaration service, a time where we come together to worship, I will simply leave you with his words.
Worship is
the submission of all our nature to God.
It is the quickening of the conscience by His holiness;
the nourishment of mind with His truth;
the purifying of the 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
of that self-centeredness
which is our original sin
and the source of all actual sin.
William Temple, 1881 - 1944
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