{"id":428,"date":"2007-02-08T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-08T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2007\/02\/called-to-worsh-4.html"},"modified":"2007-02-08T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-08T02:00:00","slug":"called-to-worsh-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/02\/called-to-worsh-4.html","title":{"rendered":"Called to Worship (p5)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hunchbackofnotredameii\"<\/a>Could it be that contemporary pastors and worship leaders are glorified Quasimodo’s?  Modern day Hunchback’s of Notre Dame!<\/p>\n

I beginning to think so.  <\/p>\n

When we stand before God’s people it isn’t that they do not have clocks or watches.  Quite the opposite, they live under the "tyranny of time," as Os Guiness said in his book "Prophetic Untimeliness."<\/p>\n

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"Today, when globalization is bringing the modern Western view of time to the whole world, the contrast between traditional and odern views is captured in a hundred homespun sayings from people outside the West.  Filipinos, for instance:  ‘Westerners are people with gods on their wrists.’ or Kenyans:  ‘Westerners have watches but no time.  Africans have time but no watches.’ (28)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Guiness says that our drive for coordination and precision, planning and scheduling is producing one thing:  Pressure.<\/p>\n

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"The tick-tock of the clock has become the background drum-beat and staccato bark of the drill sergeant who drives us across the parade ground of life." p34<\/p>\n

"But it is impossible to stop the world today even if you want to get off–and this manic speed is affecting our faith as much as our blood pressure." (p36)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And we wonder why we can’t worship in a worship service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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