Harold Best encourages us to watch out mouths. Every time we speak, we are teaching. So the question is…what are we teaching about God?
Good is a word I want back in culture so badly. Instead of ‘awesome,’ and ‘exellent,’ and ‘fantastic.’ And all these things we use to describe everything from Jesus to a popsicle. We’re using superlatives addictively and there is no language left to talk about God who is superlative, who is transcendent, who according not just to those who have popularized the word ‘awesome,’ but according to the Scriptures is awesome. A pooped-out word now. It’s totally pooped out. It has nothing left within it. So we talk about God and call him awesome when in just a few minutes ago we talked about how awesome my new Toyota is. Or how awesomely low the score was in last night’s or last week’s baseball game was and so on and so forth. How I long for someone to say: ‘He or she is a good person.’ ‘This is good music.’ ‘This is merely good.’ The way C.S. Lewis talks about ‘Mere Christianity.’ The mere goodness of something.
–Harold Best, “Continuous Worship: Is ‘Worship’ the Only Word for ‘Worship’” (11:00). From the Continuous Worship Conference .
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April 3, 2009 at 7:49 am
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