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The entire book calls us to worship him at the encouragement of the Father, worship him more than
anything or anyone else. Our worship of him must begin now. Salvation can be defined as the beginning
of a person’s Christ worship, focused, undistracted Christ worship.

“The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has
been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while
continuing to invent non-psalmic ‘worship’ based on our own feelings of the moment,
risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain [near Cape
Town, South Africa] with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze
at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy [electronic game].”
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103 N.T. Wright, The Case for the Psalms (New York: Harper Collins, 2013), 6.
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