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----- Original Message -----
From: Lance Muir
To: David
Jennings
Sent: June 03, 2005 07:46
Subject: Fw: Exerpts ----- Original Message -----
From: Lance Muir
To: Soderholm Glen
Sent: June 03, 2005 07:44
Subject: Exerpts Worship shapes our spirituality
"...our spirituality is usually shaped more by the
experience of communal worship than it is by preaching and teaching....the way
we think about God and relate to God is influenced enormously by our experience
of God in communal worship..Songs are especially formative. We are far more
likely to find ourselves humming something we sang in church when we go home
than we are to find ourselves meditating on a phrase in the sermon..(not one of
yours, of course)..Christian philosopher and scientist Michael Polanyi spoke of
knowledge that we simply absorb by a kind of 'osmosis' without even realizing
that we have done so. This is what he refers to as 'tacit knowledge' Most
Christians simply imbibe a theology through the way that they
worship.
.theology springs from right worship but theology
also, in turn, guides and ensures right worship.There is a circular relationship
between the two as healthy worship and theology support each other....how
theology can guide the kind of worship that in turn shapes people
spirituality.
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