Worship according to Kierkegaard

Fill in your own example, but this is more true than we like to admit. God help me to never be this minister...

True worship of God consists in doing God's will. But this sort of worship is not to our taste. Generation after generation, people have busied themselves with a worship that consists in having one's own will, but doing it in such a way that the name of God is brought into conjunction with it. For example, a person is inclined to want to support himself by engaging in activities that involve killing people. Now he sees in Scripture that this is not permissible, that God's will is, "You shall not kill." "All right," he thinks, "but that sort of teaching doesn't really suit me, but neither do I want to be an ungodly man." So what does he do? He gets hold of a minister who in God's name blesses the sword. What a clever trick!