Section 4
that body. This body is the organism of Christ and the church.
The focus of the Bible is God as life growing in an organic body. This means that God is the growing life and that the growing life needs an organism, an organic body, in which God can grow and through which He can express Him self. We have been told that God was our Cre ator, the object of our worship, and that we, the creatures, had to worship Him. Although this is not wrong, it is a very superficial understand ing of the revelation in the Bible. It is definitely not the inner content of the focus of God's rev elation.
The inner content of the divine focus is that God is not only our Creator and the object of our worship, but that He is life. Life does not require worship. How foolish it would be to put a carnation seed on the table and worship it! If you did this and the carnation seed could speak, it would say, "Stupid man! What are you doing? The more you worship me, the more I suffer. Instead of worshipping me, please sow me into the soil. If you do this, I will be happy." Ultimately, God is not the object of our worship; He is life and He desires to grow in an organic body so that He may be expressed.