To be or not to be a community is not an option for the church. By nature the church is a community and experiences communion. The question before the people of God is: what kind of community will we be? John Driver, Community and Commitment
Over the past few years I have grown increasingly unhappy with the term “worship,” where we use it to refer to an activity, usually the singing of songs, led by a semi-professional musician or music team, in a gathering of believers. I’m unhappy with the word because I can find no reflection of our use in the New Testament, and I think our use reflects our dualistic western worldview.
Consider for a moment how much energy we invest in worship events. In most communities, the Sunday meeting is the highlight of the week. And that meeting is focused around two pieces: word, and “worship.”
“Len,” you may be thinking, “Get over it. Why do you major on minors?”
Because the imagination of God’s people has been taken captive. Walter Brueggemann notes that the key pathology of our time is the reduction of imagination. He argues that,
“The task of prophetic imagination is to bring to public expression those very hopes and yearnings that have been denied so long and suppressed so deeply that we no longer know they are there..
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