N. T. Wright Quotes About Worship

Quotes about: Worship

• The closer you get to the truth, the clearer becomes the beauty, and the more you will find worship welling up within you. That's why theology and worship belong together.

  N. T. Wright

  Together, Worship, Theology

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done.

  N. T. Wright

  Reality, Glimpse, Done

• You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.

  N. T. Wright

  Character, Admiration, Worship

• True worship doesn't put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn't forced, isn't half-hearted, doesn't keep looking at its watch, doesn't worry what the person in the next pew is doing. True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

  N. T. Wright

  Dark, Worry, Waiting

• You become like what you worship

  N. T. Wright

  Idols, Idol Worship, Worship

  N. T. Wright (2011). “Revelation for Everyone”, p.92, Presbyterian Publishing Corp

• True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

  N. T. Wright

  Dark, Waiting, Trust In God

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.7, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Worship is love on its knees before the beloved; just as mission is love on its feet to serve the beloved

  N. T. Wright

  Feet, Knees, Beloved

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• That is what worship is all about. It is the glad shout of praise that arises to God the creator and God the rescuer from the creation that recognizes its maker, the creation that acknowledges the triumph of Jesus the Lamb. That is the worship that is going on in heaven, in God's dimension, all the time. The question we ought to be asking is how best we might join in.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Heaven, Triumph

• The church exists primarily for two closely correlated purposes: to worship God and to work for his kingdom in the world ... The church also exists for a third purpose, which serves the other two: to encourage one another, to build one another up in faith, to pray with and for one another, to learn from one another and teach one another, and to set one another examples to follow, challenges to take up, and urgent tasks to perform. This is all part of what is known loosely as fellowship.

  N. T. Wright

  Two, Challenges, Church

• True worship doesn't keep looking at its watch.

  N. T. Wright

  Watches, Worship, True Worship

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and compassionate God today, and then refuse to live passionately and compassionately tomorrow. If we say or sing, as we so often do, 'Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit', we thereby commit ourselves, in love, to the work of making his love known to the world that still stands so sorely in need of it. This is not the god the world wants. This is the God the world needs.

  N. T. Wright

  Father, Son, Blood

• Worship is humble and glad, worship forgets itself in remembering God; worship celebrates the truth as God's truth, not its own.

  N. T. Wright

  Humble, Remembering God, Worship

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• ...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Easter, People

• Genesis 1...was designed to reflect God, both to reflect God back to God in worship and to reflect God into the rest of creation in stewardship.

  N. T. Wright

  Stewardship, Worship, Creation

• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  N. T. Wright

  Spiritual, Loss, Humanness Is

• The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy

  N. T. Wright

  Prayer, Children, Ocean

• I'm very eclectic, musically as in other things! But also to frame the hearing and knowing of Scripture within a context of worship, which is what Anglican liturgy does, just seems to me such a very complete and compelling thing.

  N. T. Wright

  Knowing, Doe, Hearing

  Source: blogs.thegospelcoalition.org

• For now we see the beauty of God through a glass, darkly, but then face to face; now we appreciate only in part, but then we shall affirm and appreciate God, even as the living God has affirmed and appreciated us. So now our tasks are worship, mission, and management, these three; but the greatest of these is worship.

  N. T. Wright

  Glasses, Appreciate, Tasks

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

• Worship will never end; whether there be buildings, they will crumble; whether there be committees, they will fall asleep; whether there be budgets, they will add up to nothing. For we build for the present age, we discuss for the present age, and we pay for the present age; but when the age to come is here, the present age will be done away.

  N. T. Wright

  Fall, Age, Add

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.11, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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