More than a lecture hall or a feel-good pep rally

I'm still chewing on this one:

"Evangelicals go to church on Sunday yet are unaffected because we either sit passively in a lecture hall taking lecture notes for later use or we indulge in a rock concert/pep rally that titillates our emotions but leaves little to order our selves into the glory of God.  Neither traditional nor charismatic forms of evangelical worship are sufficient to orient persons into God's glory admits the secular cultures of desire.

 

Evangelical worshipers therefore have need for more than a lecture hall or a feel-good pep rally. We unconsciously hunger for an alive body of Christ we can be immersed into, an encultured organism that orders our desires, orients our vision, and livens our words through art, symbols, prayers, mutual exchanges, participatory rituals, readings of the Word and the Eucharist every Sunday morning. Only though immersion can our "selves" be ordered doxologically so as to experience God as he is and live the Christian life in the world."

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Source: The Great Giveaway by David Fitch, p. 105.

Comments

[Kierke]

I heven't read this book, but from all the posts here and the comments made on it, I have to read this book. Thanks for sharing with us.

[Mark Bushor]

No prob. I enjoy reading & posting interesting quotations.

I'm currently around page 110 and he's thrown me a loop by the insistence that liturgy is the way to go.

Yikes. Didn't see that coming, lol.

MB :-)