I don't think I've ever thought about the thought-process of Jesus regarding the transformation of worship in the New Testament...
He literally came to turn it upside down.
There was a new form of worship for the Israelites, as well as the rest of the world, and it was His walk and journey to the cross that was going to bring it to life.
In the second chapter of Worship Old and New, Webber addresses the fact that Jesus knew that He "superseded the Old Testament institutions of worship...He was greater than the temple and rendered its rituals obsolete." Can you imagine His thoughts..."I'm going to completely change the way they see Me, I'm going to transform the way they love Him, I'm going to create a new worship." I mean really.
I am just blown away by the steps of Christ, being fully human and fully God. He lived a completely flawless life-as a human. And He changed the way we approach the Lord. He changed how and why we do what we do in worship to our King.
When comparing Old Testament worship to New Testament worship, Webber says that "New Testament worship proclaims the story of the second Exodus- Christ's leading His people out of bondage to sin."
Let Him show you. Let Him lead you out of bondage.
"Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
John 4:23-24
~Laramie
We sat on the futon talking about all of this. Jesus was a radical and not an extremist. The difference being between inward transformation vs. outward interpretation.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to be a radical.