Making Contact with God

Experiencing God in the Word

If worship is the prime place where we can meet God, by listening to His words, acknowledging His authority, and reaffirming our commitments . . .

and if God is spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth . . .

then

worship,

and the wonder,

and the way to an experience of God

must all coalesce

in Jesus!

He is the One whom even the unclean spirits know as the Holy One of God! (Mark 1:24)

He is the One who calls for silence! "Be silent, and come out of him" (Mark 1:25).

He is the One with the authoritative word, "the new teaching," (Mark 1:27) to which we must listen!

He is the One who calls us to commitment!

And here today, it is
this very Jesus
who calls US
to a reaffirmation of our vows.

He it is that we worship.

"The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honour the Son even as they honour the Father" (John 5:22f).

Since this is none other than the Word made flesh (John 1:14), then to see Him is to see the Father (John 12:9).

He is the effulgence of the Father's glory and the very stamp of the Father's substantive being (Hebrews 1:3).

To meet Jesus face to face is to meet God face to face!

Let no one say he hasn't seen God. No one, at any rate, who has heard the gospel.

To meet Jesus is to wonder, to stand in awe of God's being and God's work.

It is to begin to slow down and to listen.

It is to stop in our tracks and begin to realize that an 'otherness' has drawn near, . . . asking questions of us, . . . pushing us to be honest about ourselves, . . . probing at the issues of integrity . . . and meaning . . . and significance of our lives. . . .

And just perhaps we may sense the approach of a greater authority over our lives.

Jesus is the way to an experience of God.

... CONTINUED

Making Contact with God, Part One : Making Contact with God
Making Contact with God, Part Two : Experiencing God in Worship
Making Contact with God, PART FOUR : Experiencing God in our Daily Walk

Copies of Cultivating God's Presence - the book from which MAKING CONTACT WITH GOD has been excerpted - may be obtained from Dr. Churchill by sending
a cheque or money order for $9.95 plus $2.50 shipping and handling, to

Dr. Allen D. Churchill
Senior Minister
Dominion-Chalmers United Church
355 Cooper Street
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
K2P 0G8

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