The Dangerous Act of Worship Quotes

“When preaching plays to the culture without substantially critiquing and engaging it, it becomes part of the problem. Sermons that only apply to the individual and to the inner life of the disciple without raising biblical questions about our public lives are also a factor. So, too, are worship services that offer little more than comfort food: the baked potatoes of love, the melting butter of grace, with just enough bacon and chives of outreach to ease the conscience. All this becomes a churchly anesthetic.”
― Mark Labberton, The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God's Call to Justice

“When worship is our response to the One who alone is worthy of it-Jesus Christ-then our lives are on their way to being turned inside out.”
― Mark Labberton, The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God's Call to Justice

“Waking up is the dangerous act of worship. It's dangerous because worship is meant to produce lives fully attentive to reality as God sees it, and that's more
than most of us want to deal with.”
― Mark Labberton, The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God's Call to Justice

“Worship turns out to be the dangerous act of waking up to God and to the purposes of God in the world, and then living lives that actually show it.”
― Mark Labberton, The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God's Call to Justice

“Waking up is the dangerous act of worship. It's dangerous because worship is meant to produce lives fully attentive to reality as God sees it, and that's more
than most of us want to deal with. Yes, true worship always questions the dominant paradigms, even those within the church.”
― Mark Labberton, The Dangerous Act of Worship: Living God's Call to Justice