Christian worship is an affective school, a pedagogy of desire in which we learn not how to be spiritual or religious, but how to be human, how to take up the vocation given to us at creation. And now we are sent from this practice arena—which is the real world—into the world to be witnesses by being God’s image bearers, who cultivate the world in a way that exemplifies Jesus’s perfect “cultural” labor. That now includes our cultural labor of being the church, the body of Christ, in a way that is hospitable and inviting—in a way that invites others to find their identity and vocation in
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