“The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy” WayTryingChildrenHas BeensMomentsFeelingsCultureGamesPrayerViewsCitiesBoysTakenRiskOffersMountainOceanWorshipPraiseTablesRefuseSpreadContinuingSummitJoiningSpoiledChorusPsalmsSpoiled ChildrenJoining In Author:N. T. Wright
“Men in all societies possess the biological equipment to remove their hats or shoes, but it is the birth within a particular culture that decides that a Jew will keep his hat and shoes on in his place of worship, a Mohammedan will take off his shoes, and a Christian will keep his shoes on but remove his hat.” MenChristianCultureParticularBirthBehaviorWorshipShoesJewHatsRemoveEquipmentPlaces Of Worship Book:MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION Source: MAN'S RISE TO CIVILIZATION
“If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.” IfsCultureDemandWorshipBiblicalPreference Author:Ed Stetzer
“Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.” WayCultureParentReligiousWorshipEthicsChineseCodeAncestorConfucianismChinese CultureCode Of EthicsAncestor Worship Author:David Henry Hwang
“History is driven, over the long haul, by culture - by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good, and by the expressions they give to those convictions in language, literature, and the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on.” MenGivingLongArtCultureLiteratureIndividualLanguageWillingExpressionHonorWorshipMen And WomenConvictionDrivenBeing TrueCherishStakesHaulLong HaulIndividuals And Society Book:The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God Source: The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God