Glimpses of the New Creation: Worship and the Formative Power of the Arts
Our entire being longs to worship, work, eat, play, sing, dance, and rest in the comfort and security of our heavenly Father’s home. It is for this that we are created, and it is for this that we are wired.
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All churches must understand, love, and identify with their local community and social setting, and yet at the same time be able and willing to critique and challenge it.
Timothy Keller, Daniel Strange, Gabriel Salguero, • Center Church
the tangible practices of Christian worship paint the picture, as it were—in the metaphors of the biblical story, the poetics of the Psalms, the meter of hymns and choruses, the tangible elements of bread and wine, the visions painted in stained glass—all of which works on our imaginations, teaching us to want.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
The Bible has come to life for you in ways you’ve never experienced before. It’s almost like you’re seeing Genesis 1 and 2 for the first time, realizing that we’re made to be makers, commissioned to be God’s image bearers by taking up our God-given labor of culture-making. It’s as if someone gave you a new decoder ring for reading the prophets. You
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Mike Cosper, Rhythms of Grace: How the Church’s Worship Tells the Story of the Gospel (Wheaton: Crossway, 2013);
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
And so on, and so on. You will begin to appreciate that all sorts of things we do are, when seen in this light, doing something to us. It’s not just the messages or ideas or information being disseminated by these cultural institutions that have import for discipleship; it is the very form of the practices themselves, their liturgical power to (de)
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