Important fact about worship at 9:09 AM

Thoughts on worship from Eugene Peterson in his book A Long Obiedence in the Same Direction.

"Feelings are important in many areas but completely unreliable in matters of faith. Paul Scherer is laconic: 'The bible wastes very little time on the way we feel.' We live in what one writter has called the, "age of sensation." We think that if you don't feel something there can be no authenticity in doing it. But the wisdom of God says something different: that we act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker than feeling our way into a new way of acting. Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in the act of worship. When we obey the command to praise God in worship, our deep, essential need to be in a realtionship with God is nurtured. "