Much of today's church has...
Much of today's church has been affected one way or another with worship wars. Perhaps
it is time to listen again to the words found in Isaiah 1. A people on the edge of exile
needed a proper understanding of worship. God was tired of their sacrifices, their burnt
offerings, their appointed feasts, and their long prayers. True worship, Isaiah reminded
them, was to: "learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; defend the fatherless,
plead for the widow" (Isaiah 1:17). Real worship, then was not something said, it was
