Thousand Faces of Worship

The thousand faces of worship contain both deadened and lively countenances. They are the lost and the found, all of whom are continuous worshipers, for... nobody does not worship. We begin at one fundamental fact about worship: at this very moment, and for as long as this world endures, everybody inhabiting it is bowing down and serving something or someone- an artifact, a person, an institution, an idea, a spirit, or God through Christ. Everyone is being shaped thereby and is growing up toward some measure of fullness, whether of righteousness or of evil. No one is exempt and no one can wish to be. We are every one of us unceasing worshipers and we will remain so forever, for eternity is an infinite extrapolation of one or two conditions: a surrender to the sinfulness of sin unto infinite loss or to the commitment of personal righteousness unto infinite gain. This is the central fact of our existence, and it drives every other fact. Within it lies the story of creation, fall, redemption and new creation or final loss.

By Dr. Harold Best
Excerpt from: Unceasing Worship