<strong><a href="../category/question-everything/">Question Everything</a></strong> is a series of posts that asks the questions people are really thinking, but are often afraid to ask. You can submit your question <a title="Submit A Question" href="../2012/01/30/submit-a-question/">here</a>.

Today’s question comes from Kaleb in Salem, Oregon.<a href="../author/thesethingsmatterbymelody/">
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"A friend of mine asked me if God is demanding or really interested in worship.  I didn't know how to answer him.  His first point was that when God creates the world there is no request for worship, even after the Garden.  It is not until much later, when the pagan culture is deeply established that God reveals any command to worship.  And even while there ample evidence of God commanding the people to worship, it doesn't seem to be that much of concern for Jesus.  He never asks for it, but he does allow it.  Jesus seems much more interested in people following his lead than in having them bow down and perform a religious act.  And when we get to Peter, it seems that God is trying to move away from the religiosity of his time and towards freedom.  I also don't want to make light of the act of worship in aligning my own heart to God.  It just seemed like a reasonable question and I didn't know how to answer..  Help."

How would you answer the question?