title: The Nearest: Devotion not Devotions
author:  Tim Ross 
description: What a refreshing book! If you struggle with your 'devotional life' (those who don't will probably lie about other things) you are in for a wonderful surprise. With profound Biblical insight, freshness, clarity, humor and practical help, Tim Ross has given the church a magnificent gift. You will find teaching here that will revolutionize the way you think about God and your walk with him. This book could change your life! Read it and give it to your friends. They will 'rise up and call you blessed', and you will do the same for me for having recommended it to you. (Steve Brown, Professor of Preaching at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida; the author of several books and a teacher on the radio program Key Life.) Tim Ross has successfully and entertainingly opened up a discussion that is long overdue. This can only benefit a church that is too often ridiculously nervous about examining the truth about what actually happens to people. (Adrian Plass, Writer and speaker with over thirty books to his name.)
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  Devotion, Worship, Loyalty v. 17.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 7 February 2018 
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  Devotion, Worship, Loyalty 
  
  CONFUSING WORDS SERIES 
  DEVOTION, WORSHIP, LOYALTY 
  Devotion, Worship, Loyalty v. 17.11, www.philaletheians.co.uk, 7 February 2018 
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  From Bhagavan Das. The Science of the Emotions. Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1924 (3rd ed.), 
  pp. 151-59. A searchable PDF of the 2nd ed. of 1908 can be found in our Constitution of Man Series. 
  True Devotion is characteristic of the aspirant on the Path of Re-
  nunciation; pseudo-Devotion is found on the other Path; Worship 
  on both. 
  Devotion has already been alluded to as distinct from Worship. At first sight — inas-
  much as it generally and prominently makes a tie between an inferior and a superior 
  — it may indeed appear to be a simple, and not a complex, Emotion of the nature of 
  Worship. But it is in reality somewhat complex. Devotion is a self-surrender, a self-
  sacrifice, a giving of all one has to anot