Worship Quotables

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• A Royal Priesthood
  The royal and priestly vocation of all human beings, it seems, to consists of this: to stand at the interface between God and his creation, bringing God’s wise and generous order to the world and giving articulate voice to creation’s glad and grateful praise to its maker. —N. T. Wright, After You Believe, 80-81
• Worship Manifests the Church
  By its worship the Church becomes itself, becomes conscious of itself, and confesses itself as a distinct entity. —J.-J. von Allmen, Worship: Its Theology and Practice, 42
• The Gospel Is the Center
  Christian theology should always start out from the gospel story (Jesus died for me) and explore the staggering theological claims that Christians are committing themselves to when they say such things. —Fred Sanders, “Introduction to Christology: Chalcedonian Categories for the Gospel Narrative,” Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective, 6-7
• The Way of Wisdom Is Worship
  When John says, “the Word became flesh,” he not only locates a manifestation of the divine glory, but he also confronts us with a divine mystery. We know something of what happens in the womb when a pregnancy starts and as it develops, but when we try to imagine what was involved when the Holy Spirit […]