UVC, Emily McGinley, Executive Pastor | Practicing Worship (Luke 19:45-48)

2022-03-21

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What is worship? Who is it for? And, why should we even bother? These are questions that came up for a lot of folks over the course of the last couple of years. Jesus spent a lot of time in worship – teaching, preaching, praying, and being in community with some folks he agreed with and a lot of folks he didn’t. But, it was less about whether or not he agreed than it was about the people: People who struggled to discover and embody a life worth living in a world determined to make that as difficult as poss...

What is worship? Who is it for? And, why should we even bother? These are questions that came up for a lot of folks over the course of the last couple of years.

Jesus spent a lot of time in worship – teaching, preaching, praying, and being in community with some folks he agreed with and a lot of folks he didn’t. But, it was less about whether or not he agreed than it was about the people: People who struggled to discover and embody a life worth living in a world determined to make that as difficult as possible. People who he knew were fearfully and wonderfully made.

Why do you worship? Maybe it’s the opportunity, if only for a moment, to confront the ways that we are broken and fearful and anxious and self-obsessed… to exchange all of these pennies of human frailty for the currency of God’s love and grace and transformative restoration.

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