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. |
Din interiorul cărții
Rezultatele 1 - 5 din 39
... leads us into worship as a daily , transforming engagement with it . " TIM DEARBORN , ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR , CHRISTIAN COMMITMENTS / FAITH AND DEVELOPMENT , WORLD VISION INTERNATIONAL THE DANGEROUS ACT OF WORSHIP Living God's Call to ...
... lead them - can listen to what the Spirit is saying in our day . It is an alarm clock telling us the sun has already risen : “ Wake up , O sleeper , rise from the dead , and Christ will shine on you . ” And wor- ship is what happens ...
... lead to a focus on consolidating and extending power instead of identifying with the pow- erless . The former is a lot more like a comfortable bed to sleep in than the latter . No wonder we don't want to wake up , let alone get up and ...
... lead to enervation and , in time , atrophy . A crisis hits - 9 / 11 or the Asian tsunami or Hurricane Katrina , say — and like waking from a deep sleep or shaken by a nightmare , our churches raise their heads and try to rise to the ...
... lead. Jesus, if anything, was and is awake. That's the shock for those who encounter him in the Gospels. He came to make a world of those who are awake—awake to God, to each other and to the world. Waking up is the dangerous act of ...
Alte ediții - Afișează-le pe toate
The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God's Call to Justice Mark Labberton Previzualizare limitată - 2012 |
The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God's Call to Justice Mark Labberton Previzualizare limitată - 2009 |
The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God's Call to Justice Mark Labberton Previzualizare limitată - 2009 |