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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... FAITHFUL LIVING IN AN AFFLUENT CULTURE , AND TEACHING FELLOW IN SPIRITUAL THEOLOGY , REGENT COLLEGE , VANCOUVER " We need this book ! Mark Labberton offers profound DangerousAct.fm Page 1 Friday , December 8 , 2006 2:33 PM Front Cover.
... culture ( or conglomeration of subcultures ) keeps changing , these are not issues that the church can pretend will go away sometime soon . But Mark wants us to think about something deeper . For even if there was an era where everybody ...
... cultural and even spiritual complacency toward a world of suffering and injustice . In Jesus Christ , we are called into a new kind of living . Through the grace of wor- ship , God applies the necessary antidote to what we assume is ...
... cultural safety than about stepping out into the bracing winds of spiritual sacrifice . Such pat- terns in a church's life can easily , if unintentionally , lead to a focus on consolidating and extending power instead of identifying ...
... culture, there's no connection between worship and justice. Many denominations are declining in membership, mine—the Pres- byterian Church (USA)—most of all. Each denomination has its own battles over various issues of the culture wars ...
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