Part of the Introduction to one of sermons titled Whispers of Worship

One of four in the series "Church Problems"

“We see throughout the Bible that when someone in antiquity encountered the holy God, the experience was almost uniform. To a person they stood quaking in terror, trembling before the Most High God. They were frightened; they were humbled; they were disintegrated; but they were certainly never bored. How is it possible then that people say church is boring?” --R. C. Sproul

. . . The Book of Nehemiah is the account of the rebuilding of the wall around the destroyed city of Jerusalem, a result of an unrepentant people that had not heard prophets like Isaiah.  Nehemiah is a book with much wisdom and great joy – BUT it also contains an account of an almost unbelievable event! In the eighth chapter, Nehemiah tells about restoring the people to worship. You see the voice of worship in the city of worship had all but faded. The joyous triumph worship of past had vanished to only that of a whisper.  It was time to reestablish the glory of worship.

Worship did not evaporate to only a whisper all at once. It did so gradually, little-by-little and one person at a time.

Today I wish to address these simple questions:

Has your worship been reduced to a whisper or has our worship been reduced to a whisper?

How does one rekindle the glory of our worship?