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Worshiping God
What if everything we do is an act of worship, whether we realize it or not? That is the provocative idea at the heart of this message, and it reframes the way we think about Sunday mornings, weekday routines, and the deepest longings of the human heart. Drawing on David Foster Wallace's famous observation that there is no such thing as not worshiping, we are challenged to examine what we are actually ascribing worth to with our time, attention, and energy. The compass metaphor is especially striking: our hearts are constantly being pulled by invisible magnetic forces, the pressures of culture, ambition, anxiety, and social media, and worship is the deliberate act of stepping out of that noise and recalibrating to true north. When we gather together and lift our voices in praise, something emerges that none of us could produce alone, much like the ancient account in 2 Chronicles where the priests sang as one and the glory of God filled the temple so powerfully that no one could stand. This is not a passive experience meant to be consumed. It is an encounter with a living God who seeks worshipers and dwells among his people in a unique and transforming way.
