Worship is essentially focus, what we attend to, what we set our hearts on.

It could be food, it could be entertainment, could be all sorts of things.

But what the psalmist would say, whether it's something we built with our hands or something already built that we set our attention on,

that whatever we idolize, we start becoming like built that we set our attention on, that whatever

we idolize, we start becoming like it. We don't even have to set out to do it. We just do it.

What we shape and put our minds on, that's what we will become like. And I believe this is true

in the way we fashion Jesus.

Music believe this is true in the way we fashion Jesus. We're talking about really knowing Christ, not just about Him, but knowing Him, knowing this Jesus from that Jesus.

We're not going to get to know Him like this same Jesus, even on a podcast.

Our pastors would tell us, yes, I believe in investing our lives in a local

church. I love my pastor. I love his sermons. I love to take notes on his sermons. I'm never not

blessed. But surely he would be the first to say, you're not going to get to know

this Jesus simply by coming and listening to a 20-minute sermon once a week. It's not

going to happen. And we are in a colossal state in our witness right now in this world because we're getting some Jesus out there half

the time secondhand instead of knowing this same Jesus of Scripture. We're going to have to get

into the scriptures and let Jesus speak for himself.

And let me tell you something.

If he doesn't offend us, we are not listening.

Because he's just like that.

Just when we think, oh, he's on our side.

Next sentence out of his mouth, he's making us mad.

And that's when you know that you're really in it. Because just as you're getting comfortable thinking, oh, this is him, this is my Jesus.

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