Reflections on Lent, #10

The two themes that I keep coming back to this season are journey and worship, which aren't entirely separate or entirely connected.  It seems that worship should have more of a wholistic reality to it: the spirit, the mind, the emotions, the will, and the body engaged.  Most of what goes on in a worship service tends toward the mind, I think, and in some places the emotions, but the body, spirit, and will are less likely to be engaged.  It is the worship leader's responsibility to create certain conditions, but even the perfect conditions will not create worship if the will is not engaged, if the worshipers do not come with a will to worship.  Worship is not a show or performance for the watchers, although that seems like the norm today.  Worship should be the central act of our life, but as Peterson says, it is not to satisfy our hearts for God, but to whet our appetite for God.