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Worship With Your Whole Self - Lucy Hutchinson: Daily Devotions with Dead People

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What does true worship actually look like?

In Day 21 of our Advent series Daily Devotions with Dead People, we turn to Lucy Hutchinson (1620–1681) to reflect on worship as both internal and external—not just what we sing, but how we live, kneel, pray, and orient our whole selves before God.

Lucy reminds us that worship without the heart is hypocrisy, but worship that claims to be “spiritual” while rejecting embodied obedience is only half-worship. True worship involves faith, reverence, love, posture, obedience, and joy—offered wholly to God as Creator, Redeemer, and Benefactor.

As Christmas approaches, this episode invites us to examine how we worship privately and publicly, in church and at home, with both soul and body.

📖 Text adapted and lightly modernised from The Principles of Christian Religion (public domain).
🔗 Original text https://archive.org/details/onprinciplesofch00hutc/page/216/mode/2up

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