Worshipful
Subtitle: living Sunday morning all week
By: James C. Howell
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781625642479; 9781498286633; 9781532614705
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Worship; Public worship; Christian life; Spiritual life; Christianity
Description: "What does it look and feel like to be worshipful? Can we find a way to worship in such a robust, thoughtful way that when we aren't in worship, the worship might linger and invigorate us? Is it possible to live in the world--doing the dishes, listening to music, being stuck in traffic, enmeshed in a thicket of meetings at work--with a serene, abiding sense of God's presence despite all the racket, that we might do whatever we do for God, and sense God's presence? And maybe more importantly: could all we do between Sundays--grocery shopping, paying bills, listening to music, taking a walk, visiting aging parents--actually enrich and inform what we do on Sunday morning, making worship itself more vigorous, profound, just plain real, and memorable, and thus heightening the likelihood that the worship will linger through the rest of the week?  This book is about living a worshipful life: understanding why we do what we do in Sunday morning worship, and then re-enacting those moods and actions all week long." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Worship and being worshipful; title: Sacred space and other places; title: Gathering and the company we keep; title: Church clothes and all we wear; title: Praising God inside and outside; title: Confession of sin and being clean; title: Baptism and encounters with water; title: Holy communion and all our food; title: Sacred music and secular music; title: Pastoral prayer and personal prayers; title: Scripture and all the other books; title: Sermons and how we all talk; title: Creed and conventional wisdom; title: The offering and the rest of our money; title: Benediction and all our good-byes.