Worship Quotables

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• All Generations
  “This is not your grandfather’s church,” announced by the leadership of one “conservative” denomination. This is an arresting claim. Why is it not his church? Whose church is it? Is he not welcome? Should he not belong?  —Terry L. Johnson, “Catholicity and Intergenerational Worship,” 12 Kings of the earth and all peoples,princes and all rulers […]
• The Church Manifested
  When the church assembles for communal worship, she does what she was called into existence to do.  The church exists to worship God in Christ.  It is in this sense that, in enacting the liturgy, she actualizes herself; and in actualizing herself, she manifests herself. —Nicholas Wolterstorff, The God We Worship,  11
• Truth, Goodness, and Beauty
  In philosophical categories, the quest for truth, goodness, and beauty finds its unity through reference to the one and only God as source, standard, and goal of the three transcendentals: ultimate truth lies in the knowledge of God, which is given and received in the communion whose concentrated form is praise and prayer; goodness is […]
• What Jesus Is Doing Now
  Usually, when we speak or think about Jesus, our focus is on what he has done or what he will do. We talk about the cross and the empty grave. We talk about his coming again to bring us home. But we do not talk nearly enough about what Jesus is doing. While Hebrews has plenty to say about […]