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Worship: The Art of True Worship

And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the
earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard
saying: "Blessing and honor and glory and power be to Him who sits
on the throne, and to the Lamb, forever and ever!"
--Revelation 5:13

It remains only to be said that worship as we have described it here
is almost (though, thank God, not quite) a forgotten art in our day.
For whatever we can say of modern Bible-believing Christians, it can
hardly be denied that we are not remarkable for our spirit of
worship. The gospel as preached by good men in our times may save
souls, but it does not create worshipers.

Our meetings are characterized by cordiality, humor, affability, zeal
and high animal spirits; but hardly anywhere do we find gatherings
marked by the overshadowing presence of God. We manage to get along
on correct doctrine, fast tunes, pleasing personalities and religious
amusements.

How few, how pitifully few are the enraptured souls who languish for
love of Christ....

If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we
shall need to recapture the spirit of worship. We shall need to have
a fresh revelation of the greatness of God and the beauty of Jesus.
We shall need to put away our phobias and our prejudices against the
deeper life and seek again to be filled with the Holy Spirit. He
alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art
of true worship.  That Incredible Christian, 130-131.