“Worship, it is true, represents love towards God; it represents the existential action of men which is directed towards the unsearchable majesty of God. But worship can represent existential love only in so far as it is significantly engaged in the corresponding love of men which is the parable of love towards God. Love of men is in itself trivial and temporal: as the parable of the Wholly Other, it is, however, of supreme significance; for it is both the emissary of the Other and the occasion by which it is apprehended.” p. 452 The Epistle to the Romans
It has been a while since I quoted Barth. Well here he is again, talking about what worship represents and how it and the love of God are tied to the love of men. The love of men, though, by itself is not significant in any ultimately meaningful way without the understanding of what it represents in eternity and how it helps us to understand our relation to God as one of a love-relationship.
