Ordinary Worship

So, we’ve taken a little side path to consider a different aspect of worship. Jesus is anxious about what is about to happen to him. In that day and time one would have been hard-pressed not to have witnessed a public execution. The Romans preferred the slow walk of crucifixion. The unfortunate victims of that form of capital punishment sometimes clung to life for two or three days. The image of such torture was meant to terrify and act as a warning. Capital punishment loses its dual functionality if it is not public. It was public. A populace teeming with PTSD from this public spectacle was likely.

We’ve learned that the common word for worship in both the Hebrew and the Greek involves a physical act, that of bowing down. As Jesus is preparing for the crucifixion, he will be bowed down. He will stumble under the weight of the cross. His head will sag upon the cross. He turns the most horrific of situations into an act of worship. As he is beaten. As he is mocked. As he his nailed to the wood. Everything that happens to him becomes an act of worship – what the church would later refer to as the stations of the cross.
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In the past thirty or so years we have witnessed a musical renaissance  within the church. Exceedingly beautiful worship music, and a lot of it,  has been composed and performed. The proliferation of worship bands and remarkably gifted musicians has become an expectation of churches both high and low on the liturgical spectrum. I don’t begrudge it. I have been a part of that movement. Yet, my concern is that the definition of worship has become increasingly narrowed to either singing or watching other people sing. According to the Scriptures, worship is more than singing, it is life: I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.  ~Romans 12:1.

In everything we do we have the potential and the privilege to live a life of worship: doing our work well; listening more and talking less; loving our friends, family, neighbors, and those who do us a bad turn; choosing kindness; taking care of our bodies; being generous; mowing the yard; cleaning the house; making dinner… It is ALL worship if recognized and offered as such.  I will see more people this week outside of church than inside of church. Thus, this worship in the ordinary is the worship that probably matters the most.