Quote of the Week
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Jan 30, 2023: God’s Story–My Life
God’s story is not a thing apart from God but the very life of God in the life of the world. Consequently, we are called in this story, not as an idea that needs to be defended with intellectual argument as if its validity depends on proof, but we are called to enter the story by delighting in it and participating in it. For true spiritual life is not an escape from life but a passionate embrace of life itself, which, it turns out, is an embrace of God and God’s purposes for our life here in this world and in the eternal praise of God in the new heavens and the new earth. -Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 28.
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Jan 23, 2023: What Worship Does
Worship proclaims and enacts God’s embrace of us and the world in his incarnation, death, and resurrection and nourishes us in the spiritual life. Worship points to the ultimate purpose of all history: the eternal worship of God by creatures and creation. -Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 26.
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Jan 16, 2023: Pattern of Spirituality
How do we become the person God created us to be? . . . How do you participate in God’s embrace for your life? The biblical key is baptism—immersion into the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This is the pattern of spirituality—putting off the old person who has been buried with Christ in death; putting on the new person raised to the new life of the Spirit. -Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 26.
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Jan 9, 2023: Contemplation of God
The focus of spirituality is not a contemplation of self but a contemplation of God, who gifts us with a restored spiritual calling to be what he created us to be and to make the world the place of his glory. -Robert Webber, The Divine Embrace: Recovering the Passionate Spiritual Life (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2006), 26.
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