If worship is the mission of God, weekly worship in the context of a local church is the most important thing that the church does.
“The truth is that the Spirit of the living God is guaranteed to ask you to go somewhere or do something you wouldn’t normally want or choose to do. The Spirit will lead you to the way of the cross, as He led Jesus to the cross, and that is definitely not a safe or pretty or comfortable place to be. The Holy Spirit of God will mold you into the person you were made to be. This often incredibly painful process strips you of selfishness, pride, and fear. For”
― Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
― Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
“For I believe the crisis in the U.S. church has almost nothing to do with being liberal or conservative; it has everything to do with giving up on the faith and discipline of our Christian baptism and settling for a common, generic U.S. identity that is part patriotism, part consumerism, part violence, and part affluence.”
― A Way other than Our Own: Devotions for Lent
― A Way other than Our Own: Devotions for Lent
“Concepts create idols; only wonder comprehends anything. People kill one another over idols. Wonder makes us fall to our knees.”
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“Let’s pray that God would empower us so radically that we would get no glory. That people would see our works and glorify God.”
― Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
― Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
“In a society that knows about initiative and self-actualization and countless other things, the capacity to lament the death of the old world is nearly lost. In a society strong on self-congratulation, the capacity to receive in doxology the new world being given is nearly lost.”
― Prophetic Imagination
― Prophetic Imagination
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