Friday 11 May 2012

Wholeness in worship

I recently read a quote from the eighteenth-century revivalist, Jonathan Edwards, who said, 
‘Some bodily worship is necessary to give liberty to our own devotion; yea though in secret, so more when with others . . . ‘Tis necessary that there should be something bodily and visible in the worship of a congregation; otherwise, there can be no communion at all’.
I wonder what he meant by bodily and visible? How can we do that when all we seem to do on a Sunday is sit in rows and sing together and say a prayer together. Are we denying our bodies? I must work on this - how can we be more wholly ourselves when we worship God in the company of our fellow believers.

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