I once heard this analogy when it comes to worship: All the planets in our solar system revolve around the sun. Why is that? It's because the Sun is the largest object. Everything else pales in comparison to it. That's why everything else revolves around the Sun. Something that Best said caught my eye as I was reading. He said, "There is, however, a bit of ambiguity as to whether charismatic worship rests in a Pneumoncentric Christology or a Chirstocentric Pneumatology." What great insight into the difference between the two! One has Jesus as "the sun" and the Holy Spirit as a lesser heavenly body, while the other has the Holy Spirit being the greatest of them all. How easy is it in our worship to put something else in front of the Gospel? I know it's very easy, mainly because of how easy it is in our personal lives (that's called idolatry). I'm so thankful to Pastor Keller yesterday for addressing that idolatry is not just carvings and statues, but can even be good things that are elevated to ultimate things. How are we to keep in perspective the Gospel, even when we know that we are, "Prone to wander, Lord I feel it. Prone to leave the God I love"?
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