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- Title: Becoming Contemplative Worshipers: Attending to Our Communal Heart (Essay)
- Author : Currents in Theology and Mission
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 276 KB
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Worship is the living heart of the body of Christ. Gathered on Sunday morning, or maybe Saturday night, around a handful of scriptures and a bit of bread, with a few songs and each other-this is our communal heart. The pulse of worship gives life to every congregation's ministry and witness. Worship is God living for us, the living heart of God. So how can we attend to this heart, not in poetry but practically speaking? What might it mean to take the pulse of worship, of our true selves together, of God? Can we describe a method, a set of communal practices, for hearing and getting in rhythm with God? The Christian contemplative tradition offers similar wisdom for individual prayers. This is practical wisdom for listening, in the tangled flesh of our human hearts, for God. We may receive it also for the sake of our communities in worship. Because what God does in prayer is what God does in worship is what God does, a contemplative posture and practice may inform us as we worship and plan worship. In other words, we may become contemplative worshipers, discerning more closely God's "small and unassuming" (1) movement within our communal heart.