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John Witvliet suggests that, rather than thinking of worship as a duty or accomplishment, we consider it as "a gift in which to participate," receiving it like Elijah's divine fire at Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18:16-38).
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Worship is not an act of obeisance to appease a distant deity; an act of self-expression to impress a waiting God; a gift calculated to curry divine favor, or to generate, manipulate, or prevent divine activity. Worship is not an accomplishment to achieve, but a gift in which to participate. It is motivated not by fear, guilt, or shame, but by gratitude. Worship, to use an image from the Hebrew Scriptures, is more like Elijah’s reception of fire from heaven on Mount Carmel than the frantic efforts of the opposing prophets to call forth the action of their gods.
—John D. Witvliet, “Prism of Glory: Trinitarian Worship and Liturgical Piety in the Reformed Tradition” in The Place of Christ in Liturgical Prayer, ed. Bryan D. Spinks, 285
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1 Kings 18:16-38
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