Living Out Our Worship Week 6

What do Christians do?

What do Christians do?

What do Christians do?

What do Christians do?

What do Christians do? What is the relationship between mission and worship? Luke 10:38–42, Mary and Martha, worship and service Delight, Encourage, Serve. Are these things related?

Class Overview I. Foundations II. Practices Worship means Ascribing Worth Worship involves Bodily Presence Worship involves the Symbolic Worship shapes how People live II. Practices Gathering Singing Communion Prayer Confession Scripture Reading

Class Overview Please note what we will not be talking about in this class: How we should or should not change what we do in our worship.

Class Overview Please note what we will not be talking about in this class: How we should or should not change what we do in our worship. This is a class about how we should practice Christ- centered living in our daily lives in light of what we do here on Sundays.

Week 5 Recap “Human gatherings always involve worship, and worship always implicates human gatherings” –Kenneson Gathering re-shapes our social imagination

Singing Praising God in song [. . .] forms our imaginations and hence our sensibilities as to what is fitting in the created (and redeemed) order. Kevin J. Vanhoozer “Praising in Song: Beauty and the Arts”

The Lord’s Supper What are we doing when we partake of the Lord’s Supper?

“The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread.” 1 Corinthians 10:16–17

 ”For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, ‘This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.’ For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.” 1 Corinthians 11:23–26

This is the monstrosity in love, lady that the will is infinite and the execution confined, that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit Desire is “an universal wolf, / so doubly seconded with will and power,” it “must make perforce an universal prey, / and last eat up himself.” --Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida

Augustine’s Confessions I realized that I was far away from thee in the land of unlikeness, as if I heard thy voice from on high: “I am the food of strong men; grow and you shall feed on me; nor shall you change me, like the food of your flesh into yourself, but you shall be changed into my likeness.” Book 7, chapter 10.

“For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” John 6:33 “Jesus said to them, ‘Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I will raise them up on the last day; for my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like that which your ancestors ate, and they died. But the one who eats this bread will live for ever.” John 6:54–58

What happens in the Lord’s Supper? Ordinary and mundane objects (bread, wine) are lifted up to God and become the Body and Blood of Christ

What happens in the Lord’s Supper? Ordinary and mundane objects (bread, wine) are lifted up to God and become the Body and Blood of Christ This is also what happens in our worship: our ordinary lives are lifted up to God and we become the Body of Christ.

What happens in the Lord’s Supper? Ordinary and mundane objects (bread, wine) are lifted up to God and become the Body and Blood of Christ This is also what happens in our worship: our ordinary lives are lifted up to God and we become the Body of Christ. “For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” John 6:33