The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that if a church fails to inspire genuine worship, it resorts to entertainment, and leaders who cannot foster worship resort to providing such entertainment.
Aiden Wilson Tozer highlights the importance of worship in a church setting, implying that when true worship is absent, people will seek substitutes like entertainment to fill the void. This critique underscores the responsibility of church leaders to cultivate an environment where authentic worship can thrive, rather than relying on superficial forms of engagement to attract or retain congregants.
In practice
During a church seminar, while discussing the role of worship, one might quote, 'The church that can't worship must be entertained.'
Peace of heart that is won by refusing to bear the common yoke of human sympathy is a peace unworthy of a Christian. To seek tranquility by stopping our ears to the cries of human pain is to make ourselves not Christian but a kind of degenerate stoic having no relation either to stoicism or Christianity.
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.
Before the Christian Church goes into eclipse anywhere there must first be a corrupting of her simple basic theology. She simply gets a wrong answer to the question, βWhat is God like?β and goes on from there. Though she may continue to cling to a sound nominal creed, her practical working creed has become false. The masses of her adherents come to believe that God is different from what He actually is; and that is heresy of the most insidious and deadly kind
People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own.
Nothing that God has ever said about Himself will be modified; nothing the inspired prophets and apostles have said about Him will be rescinded. His immutability guarantees this.
I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism.
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
I was raised in an evangelical Methodist church. Evangelical meant that though you had been baptized and made a member of the church on Sunday morning, you still had to be 'saved' on Sunday night. I wanted to be saved, but I did not think you should fake it.
In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.
Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
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