Sermons on Worship (Page 2)
One Spirit, Many Voices
Worship is a space where God’s Spirit empowers people with gifts for the building up of the body of Christ. Among the worshipping body of Christ, there is formed an alternative society of shalom, a glimpse of the future in New Creation, a space of radical equality and unity with diversity. In this message, Pastor T. C. preaches from an embattled text with a major landmine in the center. But, in context, this Text displays a revolutionary rejection of the…
Worship as Formation
As the kick-off of the Adore series, we explore Paul’s exhortation to the church in Rome (12.1-2), to present their bodies as a living sacrifice in order to have their minds renewed. For Paul worship is counter-formation. It is the antidote to the ways we’re being malformed by our everyday practices and rhythms. Christian worship is the intentional recalibration of our hearts, our loves, toward Christ and is also the engine of the church. Worship forms us into people on…
The Disturbing Way of Jesus
In Acts 19, we read the account of Paul’s time in Ephesus establishing a church there. In three key passages in that chapter, we see three ways the Way of Jesus disturbs the status quo. In verses 8-10, we see that Paul’s radical Gospel of equality and unity among all ethnic groups led to the maligning of the Jesus Way. The Jesus Way disturbs our walls of hostility (Ephesians 2.14-16). Then, in verses 14-16, we see that the Jesus Way…
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