Jason Shaw

“The bodies we use in our worship service each week are the same bodies we take to our kitchen table, into our bathtubs, and under our covers at night.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“Many feel that the church (if it’s necessary at all) is primarily intended to serve our individual spiritual needs or to group us together with like-minded people—a kind of holy fraternity. If we believe that church is merely a voluntary society of people with shared values, then it is entirely optional. If the church helps you with your personal relationship with God, great; if not, I know a great brunch place that’s open on Sunday. But while an individual relationship with Jesus is an important part of the Christian life, it is not the sum total of the Christian life.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“I couldn’t find words, but I could kneel. I could submit to God through my knees, and I’d lift my hands to hold up an ache: a fleshy, unnamable longing that I carried around my ribs. I’d offer up an aching body with my hands, my knees, my tears, my lifted eyes. My body led in prayer and led me—all of me, eventually even my words—into prayer.4”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

“The practice of confession and absolution must find its way into the small moments of sinfulness in my day. When it does, the gospel—grace itself—seeps into my day, and these moments are transformed. They’re no longer meaningless interruptions, sheer failure and lostness and brokenness. Instead, they’re moments of redemption and remembering, moments to grow bit by bit in trusting Jesus’ work on my behalf.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life