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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... kind of living . Through the grace of wor- ship , God applies the necessary antidote to what we assume is merely human — our selfishness . Worship sets us free from ourselves to be free for God and God's purposes in the world . The ...
... kind of sleepwalking . I write as one who is still just awakening yet who is eager for others to join in imitating those who are truly awake . Beyond my own personal confession , my obversations of other Chris- tians and churches and ...
... kind of suffering experi- enced by the street person we encounter on the way to work; that it is utterly beyond our grasp to respond effectively to suffering on a global scale. Part of the malady of our culture and discipleship efforts ...
... kind of substan- tial experience into which worshipers should be invited to participate. After all, in the Bible God gave spiritual, architectural, liturgical, sacra- mental and communal shape to public worship.1 So far so good. The ...
... kind of blindness and confusion that grips our culture in general . How can we learn to love God and seek justice in a dangerous world in the name of Christ , if in our worship we have only experienced a domesticated God ? As a guest ...
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