To worship is…
to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God,
to feed the mind with the truth of God,
to purge the imagination by the beauty of God,
to open the heart to the love of God,
and to devote the will to the purpose of God.
-William Temple (1881-1944), Archbishop of Canterbury from 1942 to 1944.
This definition would be well used if it were converted into a prayer each day as we seek to present our bodies as a living sacrifice holy and pleasing to the Lord (Rom. 12:1-2), or each time we assemble together with the church for corporate worship (Her. 10:24-25).
