How does one live in a world that is anti-God, devoted to opulence, consistently opposed to Way of Lamb, full of itself and intent on being impressive, protected with the might of its militarism, aiming to become the international power, living on the precipice of constant internal betrayals, driven by economic exploitation of anyone and everyone, structured into a mysterious hierarchical system of power and honor, and at the bottom of it all arrogance its driving ambition? How was one to live “
Pardon my long comment but there is so much to chew on here! "How does worshiping the Lamb in the midst of empire become dissident worship?" I love the idea that embodied habits set the stage for this. And how a life of gratitude and surrender is evidence worship is present in someone's life. I have been reading lots of Bonhoeffer and his idea of being fully human and fully unified in Spirit sticks with me. Without surrender or personal sacrifice, without gratitude and excitement about what God is doing, habits will become about us. And without embodied habits, we are not following the Lamb and can easily submit to the empire and neglect to act responsibly when God calls us to do so.
Lately, I have been focusing on "loving myself" so that I can "love God" and "love my neighbor". This means I have been focusing on being healthy, both mentally and physically. This has ABSOLUTELY set the stage for me to be a better listener, less reactive, more helpful and energized when I have the opportunity to meet practical needs. I think most evangelical women struggle with the foundational concept of loving ourselves so I am doing my best to address that in my blog about the 12 steps. Good, sweet church people can easily fall into codependency which can be remedied by the 12 steps (eg. Al Anon). I don't have a lot of readers yet, but I feel that it's important so I keep writing. Maybe that is a form of dissident worship? I sure hope so!
How do we, or should we, differentiate between habit(s) and a formula and it’s ingredients?
The Lord’s Supper/The Eucharist/Holy Communion/The Table/Etc. Represents a, or, THE, foundational, and experiential Habit of worship while following Jesus. Jesus’ instruction, at the “Last Supper,” would possibly put this into a daily worship habit within an all encompassing walk with, and following Jesus.
I know that we are dealing with a specific look at a specific piece of scripture, but we also have centuries of experience between now and then, as well as some wonderful literary works on Revelation just within this forum. Love it!
Pardon my long comment but there is so much to chew on here! "How does worshiping the Lamb in the midst of empire become dissident worship?" I love the idea that embodied habits set the stage for this. And how a life of gratitude and surrender is evidence worship is present in someone's life. I have been reading lots of Bonhoeffer and his idea of being fully human and fully unified in Spirit sticks with me. Without surrender or personal sacrifice, without gratitude and excitement about what God is doing, habits will become about us. And without embodied habits, we are not following the Lamb and can easily submit to the empire and neglect to act responsibly when God calls us to do so.
Lately, I have been focusing on "loving myself" so that I can "love God" and "love my neighbor". This means I have been focusing on being healthy, both mentally and physically. This has ABSOLUTELY set the stage for me to be a better listener, less reactive, more helpful and energized when I have the opportunity to meet practical needs. I think most evangelical women struggle with the foundational concept of loving ourselves so I am doing my best to address that in my blog about the 12 steps. Good, sweet church people can easily fall into codependency which can be remedied by the 12 steps (eg. Al Anon). I don't have a lot of readers yet, but I feel that it's important so I keep writing. Maybe that is a form of dissident worship? I sure hope so!
Scot --
Looking forward to reading the book as well. Sadly, the link on the book's webpage to download the questions does not work. :(
Looking forward to reading the whole book. Unfortunately we have to wait until May in the UK to get the hard copy!
Thank you
How do we, or should we, differentiate between habit(s) and a formula and it’s ingredients?
The Lord’s Supper/The Eucharist/Holy Communion/The Table/Etc. Represents a, or, THE, foundational, and experiential Habit of worship while following Jesus. Jesus’ instruction, at the “Last Supper,” would possibly put this into a daily worship habit within an all encompassing walk with, and following Jesus.
I know that we are dealing with a specific look at a specific piece of scripture, but we also have centuries of experience between now and then, as well as some wonderful literary works on Revelation just within this forum. Love it!