The worship of the tabernacle involved a lot of visceral components that people experienced through the senses. Incense, fire, smoke, water, and oil each play their part in the tabernacle. While many of these are shadows that point to heavenly realities, they also point to the creaturely nature of our worship. We may lean into a gnostic tendency to focus exclusively on spiritual things. But the visceral components of worship speak to the importance of bringing all our creaturely life to God in worship. In this episode of Sermon B-Sides, Pastor Jon and Pastor Rusten discuss the spiritual referents of these visceral things while also discussing how we should avoid an overly spiritualized and gnostic-leaning worship.
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