Gold Nugget 171 - Worship Is No Proof

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      Men crowd churches, attend to religious ceremonies, and contribute to religious institutions purely with the idea of avoiding hell and getting to a happier world than this.  They do not serve God for naught.  Selfishness, which is bad everywhere, is never worse than when engaged in religion. …

      When religion is attended to as a matter of form, when sentiments are expressed without conviction, services rendered without self-sacrifice, the insincerity is an insult to Omniscience. … Abounding worship is no proof of abounding virtue and abounding godliness.

 

The Pulpit Commentary, Amos p. 80, Amos 4: 4-5, (D. Thomas)

 

Gold Nugget 171

Worship Is No Proof