What is it that is going on in the contemporary church that divorces preaching from worship. There's something deeply wrong about our understanding of worship. This past year at the N. R. B.

Convention, the annual National Religious Broadcasting Convention, there were 7 or 8,000 people in the audience and

they had an extravagant service that ran for about two hours that was supposed to culminate in the

preaching of the word and what I remember vividly about what took place on that occasion was that prior to the reading

of the scripture and the preaching of the word they had a season of 40 minutes of music and the leader said we're going to have our time

of worship before we hear the message. I'm still scratching my head about that.

What is it that is going on in the contemporary church that

divorces preaching from worship.

As if listening attentively to the word of God

was not a vital part of worship. Since when is the offering of our tithes to the Lord

on Sunday morning, not an integral part of worship.

Since when is prayer, not an essential dimension of the assembling together of the

Saints in worship. There's something wrong here folks, something deeply wrong

about our understanding of worship. And what my burden is about this in the church today is really here is where the

Christian community experiences the eclipse of God,

which is the last place in the world,

the people of God,

should be placed in darkness about his character.

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