When God Draws Near: Exploring Worship from Seven Summits
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Overview
Does going to church feel more like a duty than a privilege? Too many of us are in danger of overlooking the awesome presence of God in corporate worship. We’ve missed the fact that amazing things happen when God draws near.
Paul Engle invites us to join him at seven different biblical mountains where God met his worshipping people. Explore biblical history—from Sinai to Zion to Carmel to Gerizim to Hermon to the Mount of Olives to the heavenly Zion—and gain a fresh appreciation for the awesome privilege and reward of coming into God’s presence in God-centered assemblies today.
- Explores God’s design and purpose for worship
- Examines seven different biblical mountains where God met his worshipping people
- Awakens Christians to biblical realities that take place in worship assemblies but that open go unnoticed
Part 1: Getting Ready for the Climb
- Umbrella Needed
- The Mountains Are Calling
Part 2: Climbing Summits in the Old Covenant
- Off to the Right Start
- A Tent between Two Mountains
- A Darkened Room Full of Valuable Treasures
- Fire and Rain
Part 3: Climbing Summits in the New Covenant
- First Quencher
- Winds of Change
- Lifting the Veil
- Disappearance with a Purpose
- Ultimate Destination
Today’s church is both divided and confused about worship. Our focus is too open on satisfying human needs rather than on offering praise to our eternal God. Paul Engle uses the stories of seven mountains in Scripture to remind us . . . what worship is all about.
—Douglas J. Moo, Wessner Chair of Biblical Studies, Wheaton College; Chair, Committee on Bible Tran
An imaginative journey through the Bible that is organized around visits to seven of its best-known mountains as a way of showing the true nature of worship. Because worship is central to Christian life, a book like this, in which the author has dug deeply into Scripture, is most welcome.
—David F. Wells, Distinguished Senior Research Professor, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary
This insightful and helpful book can serve as a handbook for worshippers . . . to teach them what it means to gather for worship and the impact that worship can have on their lives. . . . Paul Engle takes readers on a biblical journey of mountaintop worship that enables them to see what God is doing in them and among them as they worship—as they meet the God of the universe and experience his presence.
—Scott M. Gibson, Professor of Preaching and David E. Garland Chair of Preaching, Baylor University’s Truett Seminary
- Title: When God Draws Near: Exploring Worship from Seven Summits
- Author: Paul E. Engle
- Publisher: P&R
- Publication Date: 2019
- Pages: 216
- Resource Type: Topical
- Topic: Worship
Paul E. Engle (MDiv, Wheaton College Graduate School; DMin, Westminster Theological Seminary) is an author and ordained minister who teaches as a visiting instructor in the doctor of ministry and practical theology departments in seminaries in the United States and around the world.