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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... Individuals and families have needs and crises. When our own immediate world overwhelms us, we can readily feel disinclined or unable to look beyond it. When we do look beyond, however, we see vividly that the daily lives of millions of ...
... individuals alike struggle with their own needs , genuine and personal as they are . At a time when many are struck by the polarization between liberal and evangelical churches in America , it is more striking to see what the average ...
... individual and to the inner life of the disciple without raising biblical questions about our public lives are also a factor. So, too, are worship services that offer little more than com- fort food: the baked potatoes of love, the ...
... individual and corpo- rate worship do not produce the fruit of justice and righteousness that God seeks . This creates a crisis of faithfulness before God and a crisis of purpose before the world . Scripture indicates that our personal ...
... individuals . As I imagine this , I find it breathtaking to consider that God's loving gaze knows the whole and the part of every story and that he longs for life , justice and peace everywhere . When I travel , it enriches these images ...
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