Glimpses of the New Creation: Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts
If giftedness is confused as talent, then rest is impossible. You’ve got to keep working or someone more talented may overtake you as the most gifted. But because giftedness is discovered only out of gratitude for God’s own ministry, it invites the one receiving God’s ministry to rest. Creation is God’s ministry, and when creation receives God’s mi
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Bach saw himself not as a glittering artist, but as a craftsman. Generations of his family had been musicians. Orphaned at the age of 10, Bach taught himself music. He walked hundreds of miles to hear the best organists of his day. For most of his life, he composed a new piece every week to be performed on Sunday. At the beginning and end of each s
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Worship isn’t just something we do; it is where God does something to us. Worship is the heart of discipleship because it is the gymnasium in which God retrains our hearts.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Whenever and wherever the church spots hypostatic sharing (any occurrence of ministry), it should point in appreciative witness and proclaim the action of God. In this witness, the church asserts that the closed spin of Secular 3’s immanent frame cannot be all there is. Secular 3 has no answer for the action of ministry that comes even beyond our c
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