Lisa Dahill
"The greatest value of worship, the reason people come to church at all rather than staying home with their TVs, is finally not entertainment. It’s, well, worship. The reason people come to church is to experience those moments when liturgy and music and readings and prayers and sacraments and the faces of loved ones – indeed, our own body and life and all the world and cosmos – being to shine with the glory of God who transcends and pervades all things… Such worship is not fed by unceasing novelty. Novelty keeps us tied to the bulletin or the screen to find out what’s happening now…. Worship, rather, is fed by enough familiarity that we can trust the service itself at some point to carry us and move into the real presence."
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