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for my God's glory

(update: I'm sorry I got confused. His name's Brett, not Jordan. teehee)

A few days ago, Alex and Brett Harris introduced their first 'Post(s) of the Week' -- a new feature on their site which shares a good blog they discover after a week's worth of blogsurfing -- and presented Bob Kauflin's Worship Matters.

Bob Kauflin is a pastor and worship leader at Covenant Life Church at Gaithersburg, MD -- the very same church which Alex and Brett's eldest sibling, Joshua Harris, leads. Kauflin says he started his blog because "We simply need to do it. Worship God, that is."

He correctly notes that far too many have misunderstood what worship really means, and tries to examine various issues concerning it. Some of these issues are quite interesting, even provocative -- he's written an 8-part series entitled "Idolatry on Sunday Mornings." It's a disturbing title, don't you think? Mr. Kauflin warns that there are ways of worshiping God in vain even today, just like the Pharisees did with their loud and lengthy prayers. But that's another story, so try to read that series yourself later.

Alex considers Mr. Kauflin's blog as one of the best in the Net -- probably because Mr. Kauflin tackles an oft-ignored but very important facet in our Christian lives. It's very sad that many people have succeeded in reducing worship to a few minutes of singing and jumping up and down, when, in fact, the only thing that can fully satisfy their souls is true and heartfelt worship of God -- when one beholds and delights in the perfections of His beauty, and bathes in the awesome light of His presence.

I heartily agree with what Alex observes:

...worship is so much more than music and lyrics; it's so much more than a Sunday morning activity. As Christians we are to worship God in all areas of life... Including blogging.

How exactly -- in what specific ways -- are we to worship God through what we write? But we should be crystal clear on this: merely following a list of allowed and banned topics for our posts, nor appending a tiny reference to Him at the end of every article we write, doing these is not true worship.

Genuine worship cannot be expressed by keeping "blog laws," just as loving Him with all our hearts and all our souls can never be equated to following the Ten Commandments. So we should rephrase our question and ask like this: What kind of attitudes and motives should we foster in our blog posts so that Christ's glory will shine most brightly?

So click on and read Mr. Kauflin's excellent takes on blogging: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3. And don't forget to add WorshipMatters to your favorites.