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“For every week that we celebrate the Eucharist is another week that the kingdom and its feast have not yet fully arrived.”
― James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation

“The Supper is a gracious communion with a forgiving God; but it is also a supper we eat with one another, and that too will require forgiveness.”
― James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation

“First, with apologies for repeating the obvious, it is worth noting that the practice of Christian worship takes up and involves something mundane, common, and even “dirty” (as in “filthy lucre”): the nitty-gritty reality of money.”
― James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation

“First, lest we pass too quickly over the mundane and obvious, we should appreciate that the stuff of the Lord’s Supper—the “elements” as they’re sometimes called—are rather ho-hum stuff: bread and wine, staples of any daily diet in many parts of the world and across history.”
― James K.A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom (Cultural Liturgies): Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation