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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... look beyond it . In clearer moments , I know this is a 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 ...
... look beyond it. When we do look beyond, however, we see vividly that the daily lives of millions of people around the world are about chronic desperation. The world is racked with dramatic, torturous suffering as a consequence of ...
... look of fury and hatred pass between the two men as I have rarely seen . It was an embarrassing and painful exchange . The hatred was far more of an offense to that communion meal than the accident it- self . For an instant it seemed ...
... look at some of the false dangers that shape our pursuit of safe worship. These underlying dangers help to keep us asleep, which in turn means we miss God and lose track of our neighbor. In the next chapter we will turn to some of the ...
... look like God's life . Then , the more that our worship services lead us into lives of worship , the more we would demonstrate this by attending to the neglected , loving our enemies and remembering those in prison . But with all of our ...
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