The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God's Call to JusticeInterVarsity Press, 20 aug. 2009 - 200 pagini What's at stake in our worship? Everything. Worship is the dangerous act of waking up to God and God's purposes in the world. But something has gone wrong with our worship. Too often worship has become a place of safety and complacency, a narrowly private experience in which solitary individuals only express their personal adoration. Even when we gather corporately, we often close our eyes to those around us, focusing on God but ignoring our neighbor. But true biblical worship does not merely point us upward—it should turn us outward as well. In this prophetic wake-up call for the contemporary church, pastor Mark Labberton reconnects Christian worship with biblical justice. From beginning to end, worship must pursue justice and seek righteousness, translating into transformed lives that care for the poor and the oppressed. Labberton shows how to move beyond the comfort of safe worship to authentic worship that is awake to the needs of the world. |
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... action . " RICHARD J. MOUW , PRESIDENT AND PROfessor of CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY , FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY " Dangerous indeed ! Not only is true worship dangerous , as Mark Labberton sug- gests , but this book is dangerous . It shakes ...
... action . The extreme cost of our delirium denies God what is deserved , distorts our humanity and under- mines God's mission in the world . In this book we will consider why and how the disconnection between worship and justice exists ...
... actions are meant to bear witness and carry that fruit into their lives , even as theirs is meant to do so in our lives . We see in the language of the prophets that faithful wor- ship either does justice or risks being neither faithful ...
... actions ( Amos 2 : 6-16 , for example ) . God expects the lives of faithful worshipers to demonstrate righteousness and justice . If they would have done that , Israel would have been worshiping well . But in their failure to do justice ...
... actions drew the marginalized and the outcast . He loved the Father by loving those the Father loved . These cannot be separated . Jesus redefined the meaning of neighbor in the shocking story of the good Samaritan ( Luke 10 : 25-37 ) ...
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