When asked the greatest of the commandments, Jesus answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. And a second commandment is like it: you shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
In fulfillment of these two commandments, one way of thinking about worship involves the use of a bicycle wheel. When we come to worship, we are located on the rim of the wheel, and God is at the hub. As worship progresses we move along a spoke so that we’re drawn closer and closer to God. But as we move closer to God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we also move closer and closer to others, who are on their spokes moving toward the hub.
This is a great understanding of what is to take place in worship, for too often people who love Jesus don’t seem to have much use for others of his followers. 1 John 2: 9-11 deals with what happen when congregational members say they love God but don’t love one another. “Whoever says, ‘I am in the light,’ (of Jesus) while hating a brother or sister, is still in the darkness. Whoever loves a brother or sister lives in the light (of Jesus), and in such a person, there is no cause for stumbling. But whoever hates another believer is in the darkness, walks in the darkness, and does not know the way to go, because the darkness has brought on blindness. -DJ
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