A woman presented herself to her pastor for counseling. She pointed out to the pastor that she was a highly educated and very intelligent woman. The pastor took that under advisement.

He asked her, in fact, what her I.Q. was and she responded that it was almost 170. The pastor was impressed, but pressed on to ask her what she thought the I.Q. of an idiot might be. She ventured a number in the low 40s or 50s.

“Ah,” said the pastor. “What do you think the I.Q. of God is?”

The woman was taken aback by the question and looked at him quizzically. “I, I don’t know,” the highly educated and very intelligent woman stammered.

“Would you be comfortable with giving God an I.Q.—just for the sake of argument, of course—of 1,000,000?” he asked.

“Well, sure!” she shot back.

“Good,” he said, “because I’m going to be talking to you about what the Bible says and it seems to me that your I.Q. is closer to an idiot’s than it is to God’s.”

With the necessary changes being made, I would suggest that all of us are in the place of the highly educated and very intelligent woman: closer to the idiot’s I.Q. than to the Lord’s.

Why then, do we insist on doing worship or doing church our way instead of His?

This post from Ron Gleason’s blog made me stop and examine myself and the way I lead worship…even the way I expect to be lead into worship by another leader.

How does GOD want to be worshiped?

[ht: Christianity: Doctrine & Ethics]