A quote from John Piper...
Where worship is ignored, fellowship will become thin and man-centered and unspiritual, and evangelism will tend to call people to a social group rather than to a sovereign God. Where nurture is ignored, the deceitfulness of sin will run unchecked in the narrow ruts of individualism and the collective testimony of a loving people will vanish, and the united heart of worship will disintegrate into isolated struggles for private religious experience. And where evangelism is ignored, the recipients of grace become such living contradictions of the reality they profess that soon their worship feels like a sham and their relationships are clogged by a nagging, unspoken sense of inauthenticity.
Posted by Stina at May 3, 2006 3:02 PM