In worship God gathers his people to himself as the center: 'The LORD Reigns.' Worship is meeting God at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically.  We worship so that we live in response to and from this center, the living God.  Failure to worship consigns us to a life of spasms and jerks, at the mercy of every advertisement, every seduction, every siren.  Without worship we live manipulated and manipulating lives.  We move either in frightened panic or deluded lethargy, as we are, in turn, alarmed by specters and soothed by placebos.  If there is no center, there is no circumference.  People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.

Eugene H. Peterson,  Reversed Thunder

Order of Worship, February 25 2007

Redeemer Presbyterian Church of New Orleans