IS IT A DATE?

Understanding The Difference Between Cultic Worship And All-Of-Life-As-Worship.

My wife jasmine has some very strict rules about dates:

• We have to say something is a date. She will ask: is it a date? If I reply yes, the rules have to follow

• The rules: there can be no other people, no phones, no distractions, and interpersonal connection must happen.

• We gotta be romantic (hold hands, look at each other)

• And we gotta announce that the date is over

If something happens where I take a call or it wasn’t romantic enough, she will say, “IT DIDN’T COUNT.”

IT DIDN’T COUNT!!!

And we need at least ONE date a week.

Like we could be going to the movies but it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a date.

• it’s gotta be romantic

• no phones

• It’s gotta be announced

• We gotta connect

Going to the movies doesn’t mean it’s a date because sometimes she’s working on something or I’m working on something on our phones during the movie.

A date don’t have to be expensive but it’s got to be intentioned and positioned in such a way as to count as a date for Jasmine.

When you look at worship in the Bible, there are two MAJOR categories: ALL OF LIFE as worship and CULTIC PRACTICE as worship.

Let’s define these: