Unceasing Worship

I was reading Harold Best’s Unceasing Worship today and this following passage was so good to read.  It was one of those thoughts I had to chew on a bit, and I hope you agree.  This is from a section where he draws a comparison from the concepts ofin and about. He uses the example of the musician who thinks in music from experience as opposed to someone who thinks about music from a theory standpoint.  Here is an excerpt:

Going even further, my knowing about Jesus does not necessarily mean that I am in Jesus.  I am not even sure that knowing Jesus is the same as being inJesus; otherwise, how can the unbelief of his earthly brothers and sisters or Iscariot be explained?  Certainly one of the greatest obstacles to a sweetened and purified spread of the gospel is explained by the difference between witnessing to people from within the truth and simply stating the facts of conversion with little understanding of how radically extensive conversion is.

So we have this differntiating word in.  It goes as far as any word in describing the richness of continuous outpouring both within the Godhead and from him, toward every particle and person in his creation.  With respect to our ultimate condition, we are either in Christ or outside of him.  There is no middle ground.  Outsideness is not vagueness or ambiguity.  A lost person is not only outside of Christ but also in Satan.  Lostness is not a vacuum, nor does it imply that there is no service, no master, no hierarchy.  Lostness is a choice demanding an exchange of gods as outpouring continues.  The question then is, outpouring to whom?  If I am to evangelize, I will do so knowing that I will be talking to a continuous outpourer, an inverted soul, whose only hope is to find his or her outpouring converted and washed clean by turning from bing in Satan to being in Christ.

There is only one worship war that can be properly described as such.  It is the war between God and Satan, in chich being in Christ or in Satan is the bedrock issue.  Our petty skirmishes about worship, as ignoble, silly and demeaning as they can become, are nothing compared to the violence and tearing of the real and only war.  This war is simply not ours at our dithering local level.  It is the Lord’s and if we were to better understand this one splendid fact, we would be placing far less emphasis on what we do, what style we do it in, what we keep and what we throw out, and what latest poll or societal "insight" we choose to use as our template.

Boy, it just keeps going on from there, but my hand is cramping up.  I would highly recommend getting your hands on this book and pouring over it.  Do so with the Bible next to you.  Dive in, struggle with the text and ideas.  Don’t take anything he says for granted, but rather investigate and wrestle with concepts presented.  Thoughts?