Christian worship is the feast where we acquire new hungers—for God and for what God desires—and are then sent into his creation to act accordingly.

but also because anyone collecting people in the Jordan wilderness was symbolically saying: this is the new exodus. Anybody offering water-baptism for the forgiveness of sins was saying: you can have, here and now, what you would normally get through the Temple cult.

This idea of function and order is why when people need to clear their heads, they want to go for a walk or take a hike, smell the flowers. People go back to nature. What is happening is that people need to walk into something that is functioning the way God intended. Nature is where creation is functioning in order. As we are in that place of orde

The end of worship is bound up with the end of being human. In other words, the point of worship is bound up with the point of creation. The goal of Christian worship is a renewal of the mandate in creation: to be (re)made in God’s image and then sent as his image bearers to and for the world.