{"id":2132,"date":"2015-07-02T10:16:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T14:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2015-07-02T10:16:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T14:16:46","slug":"a-scrambled-worship-reflex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=2132","title":{"rendered":"A Scrambled Worship Reflex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/idolatry.fish_.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2133\" src=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/idolatry.fish_.jpeg\" alt=\"idolatry.fish\" width=\"700\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/idolatry.fish_.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/idolatry.fish_-300x129.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/idolatry.fish_-676x290.jpeg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Life is worship.<\/p>\n<p>Not <em>should be<\/em>. <em>Is<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Humans are worshipers by default. Worship is a reflex. By an inbred necessity of the heart, we adore, sacrifice, praise and give ourselves away in worship. We were created for this.<\/p>\n<p>As A.W. Tozer put it, worship is \u201cthe normal employment of moral beings . . . It is something built into human nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Fall didn\u2019t remove the worship-impulse; it scrambled it. It didn\u2019t obliterate worship; it changed the object of our worship.When Adam and Eve turned from worship of God to devotion to their desires, they cast the mold for all their descendants. John Calvin had it right with regard to the human heart: it is \u201ca perpetual forge of idols.\u201d Look around. Look <em>within<\/em>! It\u2019s hard to argue with him. Worship is everywhere, idolatrous though much of it is.<\/p>\n<p>Life rightly lived, life fully enjoyed, is lived as an unfolding, moment-by-moment expression of worship <em>to God<\/em>.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Life-as-Worship-John-Kitchen\/dp\/1619581620\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1424117556&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=life+as+worship+john+kitchen\" target=\"_blank\">Life as Worship<\/a>, p.17)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Life is worship. Not should be. Is. Humans are worshipers by default. Worship is a reflex. By an inbred necessity of the heart, we adore, sacrifice, praise and give ourselves away in worship. We were created for this. As A.W. Tozer put it, worship is \u201cthe normal employment of moral beings . . . It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-yo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2135,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions\/2135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}