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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Chapel
We are talking about chapel and how we are required to go to 30 every semester. I just want to say that if chapel were not required, I would not go.
I did my research project in Great Conversations on why chapel should not be required. It was funny, because I quoted AJ Gordon against the chapel program. I think that having it required completely diminishes the heart of worship. And, of course, I never feel represented in the services.
The constant danger is, that, through habitual use, our worship may become mechanical and artificial. The ancient complaint of Jehovah, “This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,” is, alas, too constantly applicable to us. It is so easy to let words ripple over the heart without ever stirring its depths. Sounds and sentences slip so lightly in the upward flight of worship and yet often bear no burden of true penitence of thanksgiving. I am sure that we must all condemn ourselves of much insincerity in this matter, and of too much emptiness and unrealness in our act of worship. (Gordon 67)
I did my research project in Great Conversations on why chapel should not be required. It was funny, because I quoted AJ Gordon against the chapel program. I think that having it required completely diminishes the heart of worship. And, of course, I never feel represented in the services.
ReplyDeleteThe constant danger is, that, through habitual use, our worship may become mechanical and artificial. The ancient complaint of Jehovah, “This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,” is, alas, too constantly applicable to us. It is so easy to let words ripple over the heart without ever stirring its depths. Sounds and sentences slip so lightly in the upward flight of worship and yet often bear no burden of true penitence of thanksgiving. I am sure that we must all condemn ourselves of much insincerity in this matter, and of too much emptiness and unrealness in our act of worship. (Gordon 67)
ReplyDeleteLooking back on this now, years later, I really connect with AJ on this matter.
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