Postmodern Worship - or Bible directed worship?
Mariinsky Hospital (with monument to Fyodor Dostoyevsky), Moscow. Dostoyevsky was born here. The statue was erected in 1918, one of the few surviving monuments of early Soviet monumental propaganda. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) In The Brothers Karamazov , Fyodor Dostoyevsky 's Grand Inquisitor offers this insight into fallen human nature: "So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship." Though the Grand Inquisitor falls far short as a reliable guide to theology, at this point he is surely correct. Human beings are profoundly religious—even when we do not know ourselves to be—and humans incessantly seek an object of worship. Yet, human beings are also sinners, and thus our worship is, more often than not, grounded in our own paganism of personal preference. As John Calvin profoundly explained, the fallen human heart is an "idol-making factory," always producing new idols for worship and vener