To embrace participation is to embrace imperfection over control, to leave lots of breathing room for God’s Spirit to work, to go in directions you did not plan to go. Transductive worship is more slot machine than gumball machine: worship where you never know what’s coming up next versus putting a quarter in and the same thing comes out except in different colors. “Seek-thy-face”84 worship is now “in-your-face,” down-your-throat, out-of-control, off-the-cuff worship. African-American




