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Explanation:
There is a saying ascribed to St. Jerome that everything a believer does is prayer and a proverb, "He who works faithfully prays twice." This can be said because a believer fears and honors God in his work and remembers the commandment not to wrong anyone, or to try to steal, defraud, or cheat.
It’s true the pragmatic mind–I think of Martha in Luke 10–cannot see the point in our sitting for an hour at the feet of Jesus, doing nothing productive. Here was her sister Mary, for instance. She was just sitting there on the floor, listening and adoring and thinking. The Lord said to Martha, “Mary has made the right choice, and it will not be taken away from her” (Luke 10:42).
2. “Nothing they’re doing is inspiring.”
Pity the worship leaders. They’re in a no-win situation. They get criticized for putting on a performance and criticized for not performing well enough. They cannot do our worship for us, but we demand that they sing and preach and lead so well, our worship is automatic.
3. "You don’t feel the song you are singing and so it’s pointless.”
Some of them are pointless, I fear. But whether I “feel” the song I’m singing is beside the point. I do a lot of things that count with the Lord which I may not “feel.”
4. "You don’t understand that scripture.”
Often that’s true. But my heart loves that text and everytime I read it or hear it read, my spirit soars and I know I’m hearing from Heaven. So often, I say with the Psalmist, “Such knowledge is beyond me; It is too high; I cannot attain to it” (Psa. 139:6). But I read it anyway and draw worship from its inspiration.
