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John Witvliet reflects on the Christian understanding of worship as directed toward the Trinity: God makes our worship possible, the Spirit inspires that worship, and Jesus mediates for us before God (Hebrews 7:25).
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At the center of the Christian understanding of worship is the notion that God is not only the One to whom worship is addressed; God is also an agent in making our worship possible. The Holy Spirit inspires our worship and, when we are unable or do not know how to pray, prays for us and through us. Jesus Christ mediates our worship as the high priest who brings our prayers before God and who indeed “ever lives to pray for us’ (Heb 7:25, my trans.). This means that the triune God is active in our worship, receiving, inspiring and perfecting our words, thoughts, gestures and actions, a beautiful triune dance that makes our activity in worship not an onerous obligation through which we hope to reach God, but rather a joyful active participation in a divine mystery beyond our comprehension. . . . Trinitarian Christians celebrate and savor the mediatorial agency of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit in every aspect of worship.
—John D. Witvliet, “What to Do with Our Renewed Trinitarian Enthusiasm: Forming Trinitarian Piety and Imagination through Worship and Catechesis,” in Trinitarian Theology for the Church: Scripture, Community, Worship, 240-1
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