Worship Habits

This week I am leading the youth section of our Vacation Bible School. On the first night, the Bible study focused on worship. There are some handouts provided with the teacher guide for the youth to complete. One of the activities in these handouts is a quiz about attitudes of worship. The quiz is more like a “diagnostic” test to examine the health of one’s approach to worship. On this quiz, I noted an interesting question. The question read something like this... did the student come to worship eager “to be nourished” spiritually or...did they come to worship as a habit. It seemed obvious that the “right” answer is supposed to be that the youth are to come to worship to grow spiritually. I can think of at least one faculty member of the Divinity school who would pull out what was left of his hair. Habits shape the way we interact with the world. Worship as a habit forms us to see the world in the right way. How is a youth to know what it means to be “fed” spiritually if they have not been instilled with the correct habits that enable them to see the world rightly?