Robert Webber Quote – God’s narrative

God’s narrative is the one true story of the world. The church’s mission is to be a witness to God’s narrative of the world (missio Dei). Theology is the church’s corporate reflection on God’s narrative. Worship sings, proclaims and enacts God’s narrative to the glory of God. Individual spirituality is the personal embodiment of God’s [...]

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Tozer Quote

“The holy art of worship seems to have passed away like the Shekinah glory from the tabernacle. As a result, we are left to our own devices and forced to make up the lack of spontaneous worship by bringing in countless cheap and tawdry activities to hold the attention of the church people.” –A.W. Tozer

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Webber Quote of the Week

One of the major reasons why the church has fallen prey to a cultural accommodation is that it has become disconnected from its roots in Scripture, in the ancient church and in its heritage through the centuries. . . . If it is true that the road to the future lies in the past, it [...]

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Quotes from Books I’m Reading, part 3

Currently there is a growing awareness that worship is the central ministry of the Church: Worship is the center of the hourglass, the key to forming the inner life of the Church. Everything the Church does moves toward public worship, and all its ministries proceed from worship. Good worship creates community, evangelical warmth, hospitality to [...]

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Quotes from Books I’m Reading, part 2

I have always been amazed at what can happen when we simply plant the good seed of God’s Word in the good soil of broken people. We have an expression in our movement: bad people make good soil – there’s a lot of fertilizer in their lives. Neil Cole, Organic Church, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA, [...]

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Quotes from Books I’m Reading, part 1

Faith is the building that depends upon both the foundation of Scripture and the columns of the sacraments. Both are the word of God. Leanne Van Dyk, A More Profound Alleluia, Eerdman’s, Grand Rapids, MI, 2005, p. 75.

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Robert Webber quote

From an interview with Jordon Cooper for TheOoze.com The pragmatic churches have become institutionalized – with some exceptions. They responded to the sixties and seventies, created a culture-driven church an don’t get that the world has changed again. Pragmatics, being fixed, have little room for those who are shaped by the postmodern revolution. A clash [...]

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Hank Hill on Church

Hank refering to going to the new mega church: “If I wanted to go that route, I could just walk around the mall and think about Jesus.”

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Jonny Baker quote

Paraphrase of Psalm 50… Grace listen… I have no complaint about your sacrifices – you certainly put the creative effort in to your worship. But I do not need your art installations, stations, movie loops, ambient tunes, apple macs, ipods gas masks, photography, font selection, stories, good taste, creative liturgies and new technologies. All the [...]

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An outsiders take on a mega-church service

Sally Morgenthaler in Rev! Magazine… The [worship team] was young and pretty, dressed in the kind of quality-cotton-punk clothing one buys at the Gap. ‘Lift up your hands, open the door,’ crooned the lead singer, an inoffensive tenor. Male singers at [this] and other megachurches are almost always tenors, their voices clean and indistinguishable, R&B-inflected [...]

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