What is up with some congregations getting up before the service & walking up & down the pews shaking hands & gabbing in the sanctuary? When did this start in our church?
William Willimon said it best.... "When is the last time you were afraid on Sabbath morning? Our current backslapping conviviality and chumminess with God would seem strange to those who once stammered and shook before the divine, falling on their faces before God rather than shouting out a hearty 'Good Morning'!" William Willimon The Bible: A Sustaining Presence In Worship p.89
William Willimon said it best.... "When is the last time you were afraid on Sabbath morning? Our current backslapping conviviality and chumminess with God would seem strange to those who once stammered and shook before the divine, falling on their faces before God rather than shouting out a hearty 'Good Morning'!" William Willimon The Bible: A Sustaining Presence In Worship p.89
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone;
because I am a man of unclean lips,
and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips:
for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.
Isaiah 6:5