Vernon Whaley takes his reader through the Bible and investigates different areas of the Bible and how it is involved in worship. As a Bible student I was greatly intrigued by his weaving of worship and its strategies from many of the books of the Old Testament which I hadn't really thought of taking this concept from. He also took me into the lives and people, mostly familiar, and showed ways they were worshiping or not worshiping. He also deepened very familiar areas of Old Testament worship. I enjoyed how he brought out the Old Testament stories and concepts of worship, the most. I also enjoyed discussing the time between the Testaments, as a time which God didn't speak to the people, through prophets or otherwise.
I also enjoyed how he started the New Testament and looking at Jesus and his model for our worship, mostly from a personal basis. However, one thing really, and I can't emphasize it enough, let me down when he brought out the concept of worship from Romans 12:1-2. He mentioned that the New Testament word for worship is proskuneo, in the Greek. Which that is the word for some of the words translated worship. But he alluded that the Romans passage was that word used. He never told us what the word actually is, which is latreuo. This is a totally different meaning than proskuneo. I was dissappointed and it let the air out of my sails a bit.
The rest of the book was good, but it was kind of hard to keep my attention, some not being the books fault. It did wrap up well, speaking from the book of Revelation.
I would recommend one reading it for the Old Testament, especially. His ability to provide modern day glimpses made it very interesting. I would recommend the book, but be wary of the ill use or lack of clarifying part of the word for worship in Romans 12.
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