An indigenous people in Melanesia developed a mystical cult around a flagpole. The people were exposed to the affluence of an American military base. Frustrated with their own lack of possessions they responded by trying to crack the mystical marching code of the soldiers believing that an airplane loaded with cargo would arrive for them.
These indigenous people are primitive and they don’t know any better. But a closer look on why we go to church to worship may surprise even the best of us that we are no different from the cargo cult of Melanesia. Why do we go to church?
1Ch 16:29 Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
Joh 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
1Co 14:25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.
Worship is being one with God in beauty, truth and holiness. One can sing about beauty, truth, and holiness—and, worship. Holiness is not about being holy but trying to be holy for God alone is Holy. Sometimes worship can be noises; it can also be silence. Crying is worship, laughing also, but long prayers may not be worship just as well as short prayers can be—it’s in the heart but it’s also in the mind and in the volition. Walking and thinking about God is worship. Giving is definitely worship and taking can also be. Everything done in the beauty, truth and holiness of God is worship but not all the time…but…
….sometimes the best place to worship is not in the church.
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