Worship: More than a feeling of awe

By Ed Steele, Associate Professor of Music Leavell College, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary

C. S. Lewis spoke how dogs generally won’t look to what you point at with your finger. Instead, they go sniff the finger, missing your intentions.

Worship, for many, is like that. They begin to focus on worship itself, rather than the God to whom all worship belongs.  

Ed Steele Professor of Music in Leavell College at New Orleans Baptist Theological SeminaryAs I teach and converse with students about worship, one of the most common things I find is the fascination of the “feelings” of worship. There is a sense that if they haven’t felt like they had in the past, then it must not have been real worship.