Worship Quotables

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• Facing Up
  In gathering for worship we face up to who we really are and who God really is. —Christopher J. Ellis, Gathering: A Theology and Spirituality of Worship in Free Church Tradition, 4
• Worship in a Secular Age
  No, we do not need any new worship that would somehow be more adequate to our new secular world. What we need is a rediscovery of the true meaning and power of worship, and this means of its cosmic, ecclesiological, and eschatological dimensions and content. This, to be sure, implies much work, much “cleaning up.” […]
• The Paradox of the Psalms
  In expressing all the complexities and contradictions of human experience, the psalms act as good psychologists. They defeat our tendency to try to be holy without being human first. As British Benedictine Sebastian Moore has said, that “God behaves in the Psalms in ways he is not allowed to behave in systematic theology.” —Kathleen Norris, […]
• Priests of Creation
  The first, the basic definition of man is that he is the priest. He stands in the center of the world and unifies it in his act of blessing God, of both receiving the world from God and offering it to God—and by filling the world with this eucharist, he transforms his life, the one […]