模仿崇拜模式Emulating the Model of Worship
[每日靈修] 1/6/2018, 駱鴻銘編譯
帝建立了舊約中的崇拜模式。
以色列的崇拜是正式的和儀式性的。莊嚴的儀式是整個崇拜體驗的核心。聖殿崇拜的佈置絕不是偶然的。聚會的場所有莊嚴和聖潔的氣氛。這個儀式是為戲劇而設計的。文學和音樂高亢而莊嚴。上帝默示了歌曲的內容（詩篇）。由聖靈充滿的最優秀的工匠製作了藝術品。上帝設計祭司的衣服「為榮耀，為華美」（出廿八2）。
以色列崇拜中的一切，從音樂到建築，再到禮儀，都把注意力集中在上帝的威嚴上。在祂的聖潔和祂的救贖大工中，上帝是形式的內容。這是莊嚴的，因為進到上帝的面前是一件莊嚴的事。
但即使是上帝所命定的敬拜模式也可能被敗壞。禮儀可以墮落為禮儀主義，甚至更糟糕的是聖職主義（sacerdotalism），把儀式和聖禮本身視為救贖的工具。敬拜的形式可以轉化為形式主義（formalism），形式可以轉化為外在主義（externalism）。
活在神的面光中（在神面前禱告）：
在今天的靈修中，試試詩篇150篇中描述的一些讚美和崇拜形式。
進一步研讀：
出廿八2 你要給你哥哥亞倫做聖衣為榮耀，為華美。
約四22～23 你們所拜的，你們不知道；我們所拜的，我們知道，因為救恩是從猶太人出來的。時候將到，如今就是了，那真正拜父的，要用心靈和誠實拜他，因為父要這樣的人拜他。」
啟廿二9 他對我說：「千萬不可！我與你和你的弟兄眾先知，並那些守這書上言語的人，同是作僕人的。你要敬拜神。」
詩九九5 你們當尊崇耶和華我們的神，在他腳凳前下拜。他本為聖！
Emulating
the Model of Worship
God
instituted the model of worship found in the Old Testament.
The
worship of Israel was formal and liturgical. Solemn rites were central to the
experience. The setting of temple worship was anything but casual. The meeting
place had an ambiance of the solemn and the holy. The ritual was designed for
drama. The literature and music were high and majestic. God inspired the
content of songs (the Psalms). The finest craftsmen, who were filled by the
Holy Spirit, fashioned the articles of art. God designed the vestments of the
priests “for glory and for beauty” (Ex. 28:2).
Everything
in Israelite worship, from the music to the building to the liturgy, focused
attention on the majesty of God. God, in His holiness and in His redemptive
work, was the content of the form. It was solemn, because to enter the presence
of God is a solemn matter.
But
even God-ordained patterns of worship can be corrupted. Liturgy can degenerate
into liturgicalism, or even worse, sacerdotalism, by which the rites and
sacraments themselves are seen as the instruments of salvation. The forms of
worship can devolve into formalism and the externals into externalism.
Coram
Deo
In
your devotional time today, try some of the forms of praise and worship
described in Psalm 150.
Passages
for Further Study
John
4:22-23
Revelation
22:9
Psalm
99:5