Where do you worship God? You might say at St. So-and-So Church or at St. Mattress Church or whatever. We are conditioned to identify worship with some place, but…
Philipp Melanchthon, right-hand man to Martin Luther in the Reformation: “For the first law does not say, ‘Seek solitude, or your pleasure, or take your ease, but it says, ‘Honor your father and your mother, respect your government, and render obedience.’ Therefore we should learn that the works of the Second Table are truly the worship of God, that is, when our works are guided by the fear of God and by faith.” (Chemnitz, Loci Theologici, 716)
There are, after all, Ten Commandments. So as you, a believer, go about the tasks of today, you’ll be into those commandments that tell us how to act with other people. Help and serve them, as God in Christ has served you, and you are worshiping God. Difficulties and problems with others? That’s an incentive to go to church and have the love of God come into the realities of your life. So where do we worship God? Not in a building but in all our life.
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