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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... fear or guilt , but rather deep gratitude for God's abundant grace . " JOHN D. WITVLIET , DIRECTOR , CALVIN INSTITUTE OF CHRISTIAN WORSHIP " Why do churches fight over the small stuff and miss the big issues of justice and mercy ? In ...
... fear for those who have faced tough times . With the same candor found in many psalms , this one vividly de- scribes being afraid and finding God's comfort . I'm sure it was at least a “ nice sermon , ” maybe even a fairly good one ...
... fear ? Another distortion that false worship fosters is this : the loss of God's intended witness to love and justice . God intends that from true worship will flow lives that are the evidence of his just and righteous character in the ...
... Fear of the Lord God's people should be the first to assert that " the fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge " ( Proverbs 1 : 7 ) . Here , fear principally means awe , not terror . The drive for safe worship services , however ...
... fear , even to bow down , before the wrong dangers . So the dangers of our lives are not being re- written by the reality of God , as worship is meant to do . Rather , safe wor- ship allows us to continue holding on to fear of the loss ...
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