You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1428-1429 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 9 de março de 2017 00:10:22

Not everything that calls itself “worship” today will have this counterformative power, since so many of our worship services are little more than Jesufied versions of secular liturgies.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1453-1454 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 9 de março de 2017 00:41:59

In a formational paradigm, repetition isn’t insincere, because you’re not showing, you’re submitting.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1471-1472 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 9 de março de 2017 01:12:47

Worship is the heart of discipleship if and only if worship is a repertoire of Spirit-endued practices that grab hold of your gut, recalibrate your kardia, and capture your imagination.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1528-1529 | Adicionado: sexta-feira, 10 de março de 2017 09:56:07

The biblical vision of creation’s shalom is “heavenly,” but it envisions a heavenly order that becomes a reality on earth (Rev. 21:1–2).
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1533-1535 | Adicionado: sexta-feira, 10 de março de 2017 09:56:46

humanity is created with a natural desire for the supernatural, and the supernatural operations of grace enable us to realize the natural ends for which we were created.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1563-1565 | Adicionado: sexta-feira, 10 de março de 2017 10:18:22

The goal of Christian worship is a renewal of the mandate in creation: to be (re)made in God’s image and then sent as his image bearers to and for the world.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1655-1657 | Adicionado: sexta-feira, 10 de março de 2017 22:28:43

The best art, Aristotle says, makes plausible what might otherwise seem impossible. It is a matter of mimetic persuasion: convincing us that this could be.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1705-1707 | Adicionado: sexta-feira, 10 de março de 2017 23:27:35

So the Call to Worship is a weekly reenactment of the primacy and sovereignty of the Creator in our lives: just as we are called into being by the God who creates, so we are called into new life by that same God, who redeems us in Christ by the power of his Spirit.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1726-1728 | Adicionado: sábado, 11 de março de 2017 00:27:35

We listen as we hear God’s Word proclaimed, another opportunity for us to make the biblical story our story, to see ourselves as characters in the drama of redemption.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1733-1735 | Adicionado: sábado, 11 de março de 2017 00:28:19

The Lord’s Table is a leveling reality in a world of increasing inequalities, an enacted vision of “a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine” (Isa. 25:6).
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1721-1723 | Adicionado: sábado, 11 de março de 2017 00:29:51

now enter into the listening chapter of worship. This includes hearing the announcement of his law or will for our lives, which is not a burdensome yoke we try to “keep” in order to earn our salvation—we’ve already been reminded that we are forgiven in (and only because of) Christ.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1729-1731 | Adicionado: sábado, 11 de março de 2017 00:30:03

This culminates in our communing with God and with one another. We are invited to sit down for supper with the Creator of the universe, to dine with the King. But we are all invited to do so, which means we need to be reconciled to one another as well. Our communion with Christ spills over into communion as his body.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1741-1747 | Adicionado: sábado, 11 de março de 2017 00:30:29

The sending at the end of the worship service is a replay of the original commissioning of humanity as God’s image bearers because in Christ—and in the practices of Christian worship—we can finally be the humans we were made to be. So we are sent out to inhabit the sanctuary of God’s creation as living, breathing “images” of God. We bear his image by carrying out our mission to cultivate creation and invite others to find their humanity in this Story. Thus worship concludes with a benediction that is both a blessing and a charge to go, but to go in and with the presence of the Son, who will never leave us or forsake us—to go in peace to love and serve the Lord.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1972-1973 | Adicionado: segunda-feira, 13 de março de 2017 00:36:46

That incarnational impulse to provoke our responses is continued in his body in the tangible ways he nurses and nourishes our faith, giving us bread, wine, and water along the way.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1987-1988 | Adicionado: segunda-feira, 13 de março de 2017 00:41:45

life. Recognizing worship as the heart of discipleship doesn’t mean sequestering discipleship to Sunday; it means expanding worship to become a way of life.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
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“A marriage which does not constantly crucify its own selfishness and self-sufficiency, which does not ‘die to itself’ that it may point beyond itself, is not a Christian marriage. The real sin of marriage today is not adultery or lack of ‘adjustment’ or ‘mental cruelty.’ It is the idolization of the family itself, the refusal to understand marriage as directed toward the Kingdom of God.”11
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
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The wedding industry generates an estimated 49 to 51 billion dollars annually.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 2256-2257 | Adicionado: domingo, 19 de março de 2017 00:23:12

What Story is carried in those rhythms? What vision of the good life is carried in those practices? What sorts of people are made by immersion in these cultural liturgies?
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 2654-2655 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 22 de março de 2017 20:25:52

This is the conviction behind the Valparaiso Project’s teen curriculum, Way to Live.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 2670-2671 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 22 de março de 2017 20:36:09

Formative youth ministry will be ministry by youth rather than just ministry to youth.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 2995-2996 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 22 de março de 2017 22:18:32

We can summarize this (com)mission in three verbs: image, unfold, and occupy. These are “do” words, action terms. Let me unpack each of
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 3032-3034 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 22 de março de 2017 22:21:34

The body of Christ should be a testimony to the kingdom that is coming, bearing witness to how the world will be otherwise. Our work and our practices should be foretastes of that coming new city and thus should include protest and critique. Our engagement with God’s world is not about running the show or winning a culture war.
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 3144-3145 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 23 de março de 2017 00:59:13

And Christian worship, I suggest, is a design studio. The church’s mission is to send out innovators and designers whose actions aim “at changing existing situations into preferred ones.”
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
- Seu destaque ou posição 3144-3148 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 23 de março de 2017 00:59:32

And Christian worship, I suggest, is a design studio. The church’s mission is to send out innovators and designers whose actions aim “at changing existing situations into preferred ones.” But innovators and restorers and makers and designers also need the church to be an imagination station, a space for rehabituating our imagination to the “true story of the whole world.” Our imaginations need to be restored, recalibrated, and realigned by an affective immersion in the story of God in Christ
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You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit (James K. A. Smith)
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 930-932 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 29 de março de 2017 01:40:23

Indeed, you know you are encountering a situation of injustice when a few people in a system enjoy authority without vulnerability at the price of most people in that system suffering vulnerability without authority.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 965-967 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 30 de março de 2017 00:45:57

In the long run, unless you are delivered by a miracle of grace, you will find that the very thing that promised authority without vulnerability has betrayed you, handing you over to the depths of suffering—vulnerability without authority.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1039-1041 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 30 de março de 2017 00:58:32

But the goal of a police force can be neither conquest nor control. The goal of police power is flourishing—actually increasing the capacity for meaningful action in a community. In a community with effective policing, more people have more authority. Military authority is zero-sum; police authority, properly used, increases the total authority in a community.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1073-1076 | Adicionado: sexta-feira, 31 de março de 2017 00:12:22

The first things any idol takes from its worshipers are their relationships. Idols know and care nothing for the exchange of authority and vulnerability that happens in the context of love—and the demonic powers that lurk behind them, and lure us to them, despise love. So the best early warning sign that you are drifting toward Exploiting—seeking authority without vulnerability in your work, in your entertainment, in alcohol or coffee or
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1084-1084 | Adicionado: sexta-feira, 31 de março de 2017 00:13:55

The idol that begins by promising authority without vulnerability inexorably ends up delivering vulnerability without authority.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1340-1342 | Adicionado: terça-feira, 4 de abril de 2017 17:40:28

Indeed, public recognition of our authority and praise for our faithfulness can actually be fuel for the fire of burnout, compounding our sense of isolation in our loneliness and need.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1337-1342 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 5 de abril de 2017 00:13:02

No one who has stepped into the story of this broken world is exempt—burnout is a risk for anyone who cares for others’ flourishing. It emerges from our deepest callings and giftedness, but it feeds on our deepest brokenness. When people praise our commitment to a needy child, a chronically ill spouse or an underserved community, but we have no one who knows the depths of our fatigue, disappointment or despair, the gap between authority and vulnerability can become overwhelming. Indeed, public recognition of our authority and praise for our faithfulness can actually be fuel for the fire of burnout, compounding our sense of isolation in our loneliness and need.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1475-1477 | Adicionado: quarta-feira, 5 de abril de 2017 01:02:20

There is something deep in the human heart that knows that the last enemy to be conquered is death. Death is the last enemy not just because it takes life but because the fear of death prevents real life. The fear of loss has robbed our world of more life and more flourishing than any actual loss we could ever suffer.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu destaque ou posição 1725-1728 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 6 de abril de 2017 10:07:38

But what unlocks that authority is the willingness to expose ourselves to meaningful loss—to become vulnerable, woundable in the world. For this, too, is what it means to bear the divine image—if the One through whom all things were made spoke into being a world where he himself could be betrayed, wounded and killed. What we are missing, to become like him, is not ultimately more authority—it is more vulnerability.
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Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing (Andy Crouch)
- Seu marcador ou posição 1868 | Adicionado: quinta-feira, 6 de abril de 2017 10:17:01