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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... mind the need for hope in the world ) . We don't see much beyond the edges of our own bed , whether it is culture , economics , race , denomination or class . We know and like our bed . We have made it . We are not inclined to leave it ...
... mind , and with all your strength . " The second is this , " You shall love your neighbor as yourself . " There is no other commandment greater than these . ( Mark 12 : 29-31 ) These commandments set the agenda for lifestyles of worship ...
... mind . Shalom includes our individual and collective well - being , our health , our safety and our completeness . God later sees and empathizes with the unjust sufferings of Israel in Egypt ( Exodus 1 ) and provides a way to freedom ...
... mind — listening to Elisa- beth while envisioning my congregation gathering for worship on a ran- dom Sunday . While we were busy trying to park our cars in Berkeley that morning , a task “ so totally horrible , ” as one person said to ...
... mind , " then go on to love " your neighbor as yourself ” ( Luke 10:27 ) . This is God's right ordering of reality . By God's grace , what sin has distorted and injustice has dese- crated begins to reappear in the ordinary lives of ...
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