{"id":795,"date":"2011-07-15T04:18:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=795"},"modified":"2011-07-15T04:18:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:18:46","slug":"our-forms-of-worship%e2%80%a6-spurgeon-%e2%80%9cis-god-in-the-camp%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"OUR FORMS OF WORSHIP\u2026 -Spurgeon, \u201cIs God in the Camp?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>If I have gone through the general routine of the worship<br \/>\nof my church, and then think that I have done something<br \/>\nacceptable to God, while yet my heart has not communed<br \/>\nwith him in humble repentance, or faith, or love, or joy, or<br \/>\nconsecration; I make a great mistake.<br \/>\nYou may keep on with your religious performances for<br \/>\nseventy years or more; you may not neglect a single rubric<br \/>\nin the whole ritual; but it is all nothing unless the soul has<br \/>\nfellowship with God.<br \/>\nGodliness is a spiritual thing; for \u201cGod is a Spirit; and they<br \/>\nthat worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.\u201d<br \/>\nSo far as\u00a0<strong>our forms or worship<\/strong> help us towards this<br \/>\nspiritual communion, they are good, but no farther.<br \/>\nEverything brought to God as a sacrifice must be alive.<br \/>\nIts blood must be poured out warm at the altar\u2019s foot.<br \/>\nOh that you and I might feel that lifting of the soul to God,<br \/>\nand that buoyancy of heart, which true spiritual worship<br \/>\nalone can bring to us! May our ritual, whether we have much or little,<\/p>\n<p>be ourguide to God, and not our chain to hold us back from<br \/>\nGod!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I have gone through the general routine of the worship of my church, and then think that I have done something acceptable to God, while yet my heart has not communed with him in humble repentance, or faith, or love, or joy, or consecration; I make a great mistake. You may keep on with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-the-called"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}