Living Out Our Worship Week 9

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.

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

What are we doing when we take up the offering during our service?

God is clearly interested in our economic lives The Garden of Eden

God is clearly interested in our economic lives The Garden of Eden The Old Testament festivals and offerings

God is clearly interested in our economic lives The Garden of Eden The Old Testament festivals and offerings The care of the poor, widows, and aliens

God is clearly interested in our economic lives The Garden of Eden The Old Testament festivals and offerings The care of the poor, widows, and aliens Jesus’s teachings on wealth

God is clearly interested in our economic lives The Garden of Eden The Old Testament festivals and offerings The care of the poor, widows, and aliens Jesus’s teachings on wealth The first expression of Christianity is economic (Acts 2)

God is clearly interested in our economic lives The Garden of Eden The Old Testament festivals and offerings The care of the poor, widows, and aliens Jesus’s teachings on wealth The first expression of Christianity is economic (Acts 2) Paul’s teachings on wealth and giving

God is clearly interested in our economic lives The Garden of Eden The Old Testament festivals and offerings The care of the poor, widows, and aliens Jesus’s teachings on wealth The first expression of Christianity is economic (Acts 2) Paul’s teachings on wealth and giving

Conclusion: God wants to be involved in our economic lives

The Challenge posed by living in a Globalized Capitalist/Consumerist World. Capitalism clearly works: it produces wealth and can dominate a society.

The Challenge posed by living in a Globalized Capitalist/Consumerist World. Capitalism clearly works: it produces wealth and can dominate a society. What other works does Capitalism do?

The Challenge posed by living in a Globalized Capitalist/Consumerist World. Capitalism clearly works: it produces wealth and can dominate a society. What other works does Capitalism do? It creates an desire that is always restless, always seeking out more.

What are we doing when we take up the offering during our service? We are moving from an economy of exchange to an economy of gift.

What are we doing when we take up the offering during our service? We are moving from an economy of exchange to an economy of gift. We let go of our desire for more for us and give to others.

What are we doing when we take up the offering during our service? We are moving from an economy of exchange to an economy of gift. We let go of our desire for more for us and give to others. We change our hearts as we change where we invest our resources.