Called to Worship helped me experience the answer to Paul’s prayer as each page called me to comprehend with biblical clarity and genuine passion the “width and length and depth and height” of all that is ours through a loving relationship of worship with God through Christ. It gave me fresh faith to long for His glory in the church, in this generation and for many generations to come. Vernon Whaley will help you see the width of biblical worship as these chapters give you a clear look beyond our narrow understanding of our cultural biases. Called to Worship takes us past the “worship wars” that result from our myopic preoccupation with personal preferences. In this book you’ll discover the grand experience of the human soul throughout human history in countless forms, locations and unique experiences of worship. You will be amazed with the length of biblical worship as you see its span from eternity past to eternity future. From creation, through the Garden of Eden, within Old and New Testament history and into eternity future the line of God’s loving heart is drawn here. You will see that worship invites us beyond our brief life and past the millennia of earthly time to the very presence of our holy, almighty God reigning on the throne of His eternal heavens. The depth of genuine worship presented in each chapter will allow you to look into the heart of God to His profound purposes and gaze upon the deep experiences of common people in uncommon moments in God’s presence. You will find yourself longing for a deeper personal experience of the privilege and power of worship. Finally, Called to Worship will inspire you with the height of worship. As I read this book, the expectation and experience of worship seemed to crescendo to the grand finale of worship in eternity. Whaley leaves us at the height of our everlasting preoccupation with the glory of God and the worthy Lamb that was slain. It is almost as if we can hear the mighty
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