become a certain kind of person and a certain kind of people. Over time, when worship confronts us with the canonical range of Scripture,[95] coupled with its proclamation and elucidation in the sermon, we begin to absorb the story as a moral or ethical compass—not because it discloses to us abstract, ahistorical moral axioms, but because it narrates the telos of creation, the shape of the kingdom we’re looking for, thus filling in the telos of our own action. We begin to absorb the plot of the story, begin to see ourselves as characters within it; the habits and practices of its heroes
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