As noted here my way cool wife just returned from a weekend of home building in Tijuana. Upon return, the team of those who went were trading emails about their experience. This email, from Jason Blandford, a Fuller Seminary student, has something very good to say:
"You know, our church has four different "styles" of worship, which are all different versions of the same thing. But the idea of going to Mexico and building a house seems to me like an act of worship--we are offering our bodies as living sacrifices, a spiritual act of worship (Romans 12), and we labored and worked honestly with our own hands, so as to have something to share with the needy (Ephesians 4), we rendered service with enthusiasm, as to the Lord and not to men (Ephesians 5), we did it for the "least" of God's people (if there is a "least") and we did it for the King (Matthew 25). People at our church have asked me what is my favorite style of worship...from now on I will tell them the truth--my favorite way to worship the Lord is to build a house for someone who doesn't have one."
Amen!
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Thanks for sharing this. As a "worship leader" who appreciates the more contemporary songs, I still don't consider singing and music the be all and end all of worship. It is just one, sometimes small, part. We worship in a myriad of ways and, as Jason said, the offering of our bodies is genuine spiritual worship.
I suspect, that in God's view, building houses for people who don't have one is a more sweet smelling aroma than all the worship bands in all the churches on Sunday morning will ever be.
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