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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 261-262 | Adicionado: terça-feira, 2 de fevereiro de 2016 01:09:49

Saint Irenaeus captures this succinctly: “The glory of God is a human being fully alive.”
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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 347-348 | Adicionado: segunda-feira, 8 de fevereiro de 2016 23:23:23

1. A celebration of a covenant-keeping Lord.
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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 357-357 | Adicionado: segunda-feira, 8 de fevereiro de 2016 23:23:45

2. An affirmation of the goodness of creation.
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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 400-400 | Adicionado: segunda-feira, 8 de fevereiro de 2016 23:33:01

Worship is a formative encounter with a living, active, covenant-keeping Lord. And
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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 585-589 | Adicionado: terça-feira, 9 de fevereiro de 2016 10:45:20

God’s work in the world is never merely pragmatic. It isn’t simply “We can organize a program to go and do this.” If you think we can do God’s work like that, read the lives of people like William Wilberforce and think again. You can’t. You need prayer, you need the sacraments, you need that patient faithfulness—because we are not wrestling against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and the world rulers of this present darkness. (Reformed Worship 91 [March 2009]: 14)
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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 764-766 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2016 15:40:20

While we tend to assume that we think our way through the world, in fact it is our love that governs and drives our action. The center of gravity of the human person isn’t located in the head, it’s located in the gut. So the most formative education is a pedagogy of desire.
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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 906-906 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2016 20:34:08

to James Davison Hunter than we might realize. His 1991 book, Culture Wars,
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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1199-1201 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2016 21:06:12

In sum, Carson’s laudable project of pushing conversations about “Christ and culture” to the riches of the biblical narrative is a missed opportunity—a missed opportunity to articulate a biblical theology of culture as a creational task, and so also a missed opportunity to finally undo the old bifurcation between the cultural mandate and the great commission. Even
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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1968-1968 | Adicionado: sábado, 13 de fevereiro de 2016 17:29:55

1. If we, the congregation, can’t hear ourselves, it’s not worship.
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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1976-1976 | Adicionado: sábado, 13 de fevereiro de 2016 17:30:04

2. If we, the congregation, can’t sing along, it’s not worship.
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Discipleship in the Present Tense: Reflections on Faith and Culture (Smith, James K. A.)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1981-1981 | Adicionado: sábado, 13 de fevereiro de 2016 17:30:21

3. If you, the praise band, are the center of attention, it’s not worship.