Andrea’s Reviews > You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit | Examining How Culture Shapes Us | Deepening Discipleship through Christian Practices > Status Update

“Expressivists assume theirs is the only way to understand worship, and so they impose their expressivism on historic Christian worship and see only insincerity and rote repetition. But the irony is that this stems from the fact that the worship-as-expression paradigm makes US the primary actors in worship. In other words, expressivism breeds its own kind of..human striving that slides closer to works righteousness

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” —Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

This book is amazing. If I hope to internalize all that it is trying to say, I can only read it first thing in the morning when my cognitive bandwidth is at its peak, and only a few pages at a time.