In leaving the life of sin the ‘convert’ now enters the service of God. Eventually he aspires to the embrace of God through love, but his immediate concern is to become an obedient servant. He seeks to render what is due to his Lord, to recognise the worth of his Lord, to perform his religious worth-ship. All worship is service; it falls short of the perfect virtues, the so-called theological virtues, which thrust their points straight into the heart of the Godhead. Religious worship is the concern of a moral virtue; the creature as a creature in face of his Creator behaves as he should, as a dependent, one of God’s dependents. Prayer, adoration, sacrifice, all these activities are activities of dependents, they ure part of their tribute, their service. Later the religious service begins to become absorbed by the broader virtue of love which pervades every action and gradually comes to predominate. At that time the Lord will say, ‘I no longer call you servants but friends, as he said to the apostles after the first part of their apprenticeship had been fulfilled.