"I offer a palette of observations to provide color and texture so we might come to perceive, name, and act more justly. This is the change in you and me that the world awaits. This is the new life towards which Christian worship relentlessly urges us to move. Until our worship actually leads us to love differently in the world, our hearts have not changed.
I use worship to mean living the life God made for us - in other words, the most encompassing response of the whole of our lives to the whole of God made known in Jesus Christ. Worship is sharing in the life that is God's life in and for the world. Worship, then, will not refer to a particular form, musical or liturgical. It refers to the life-encompassing act of waking up to God in Christ by the Spirit with our whole being, living in communion with others who are doing likewise, and letting it show in the midst of a world for which such wakeful worship is to be a daily taste of the kingdom of love and justice that is coming."
~ The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor: Seeing Others Through the Eyes of Jesus
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