Does Worship Matter?
"Does Creator/God actually want us to worship them?" I was recently drawn to this question posed on a friend's Facebook page. I've grappled with this question several times in my life too, so I offered a comment and now have been thinking about it for the last couple of days. It's like a little marble rolling around in my brain. At certain times in my life, I've felt corporate worship--and the resources churches put into it--aren't consistent with God's desire for humans. In fact, at different points, I've actually thought we need to give up on worship, or at least the form its taken over the last 200 years. I can't actually imagine a God who wants us to use our time and money to lavish praise and adoration on him/her while people are starving and hurting in the world. Yet, I continue to come back to worship as the most important spiritual practice in my life (which is no surprise for you who have known me over the years).