Worship<\/p>\n
The whole import and substance of the Bible teaches us that the God who does not need any thing nevertheless desires the adoration and worship of His created children.<\/p>\n
Whatever Happened to Worship?, 37.<\/p>\n
Worship: Omit the Third Verse<\/p>\n
Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! While I live I will
\npraise the Lord; I will sing praises to my God while I have my
\nbeing. <\/p>\n–Psalm 146:1-2<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
I suppose it is not of vast importance that the third stanza is
\nso often omitted in the singing of a hymn, but just for the
\nrecord let it be said that the worshipers are deprived of the
\nblessing of the hymn by that omission if, as is often true, the
\nhymn develops a great Christian truth in sermonic outline. To
\nomit a stanza is to lose one link in a golden chain and greatly
\nto reduce the value of the whole hymn.<\/p>\nThe significant thing, however, is not what the omission
\nactually does, but what it suggests, viz., a nervous impatience
\nand a desire to get the service over with. We are, for instance,
\nsinging “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross.” We long to forget
\nthe big noisy world and let our hearts go out in reverent
\nworship of that Prince of Glory who died for us, but our sad
\nsweet longing is killed in the bud by the brisk, unemotional
\nvoice of the director ordering us to “omit the third verse.” We
\nwonder vaguely whether the brother is hungry or has to catch an
\nearly train or just why he is so anxious to get through with the
\nhymn. Since all standard hymns have been edited to delete
\ninferior stanzas and since any stanza of the average hymn can be
\nsung in less than one minute…and since many of our best hymns
\nhave already been shortened as much as good taste will allow, we
\nare forced to conclude that the habit of omitting the third
\nstanza reveals religious boredom, pure and simple, and it would
\ndo our souls good if we would admit it. The Price of Neglect,
\n123-124.<\/p>\n“While we don’t even sing hymns in many of our services today,
\nthis same tendency of which Tozer warns can still be sensed.
\nLord, forgive us of our ‘desire to get the service over with,’
\nand for our ‘religious boredom.’ Amen.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Worship The whole import and substance of the Bible teaches us that the God who does not need any thing nevertheless desires the adoration and worship of His created children. Whatever Happened to Worship?, 37. Worship: Omit the Third Verse Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord, O my soul! While I live I will praise…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}