2008
Are you too sinful to worship?
There have been times I didn’t want to go to church because I just didn’t want to be there for worship. When I had been sinning deliberately (is there any other way for a saved person to sin?) and felt that I just wasn’t repentant enough… and in those circumstances, it just felt wrong to go and sing praises to a holy God, as if I were worthy to do so. And it’s awkward and attention gathering to go and not sing. So I’d go late, or stay home. And consequently deny myself an avenue of grace, because the act of true worship is the best possible reminder that salvation has absolutely nothing to do with any activity on my part. This John Piper article, Can I still worship God even though I’m not entirely “pure and upright”? was a timely reminder.
If being completely “pure and upright” was prerequisite to worship then we could never worship and we could never go to heaven. So when we read Psalm 24:4—”clean hands and a pure heart”—we need to have a category for sinful blamelessness, or unrighteous righteousness, or a perfect sinner.
Recent Comments