Discipleship, becoming Christ-like, empowered by the Spirit to image God to the world is not magic. Nor is it merely intellectual. It's a matter of re-forming our loves, re-narrativing our identities, re-habituating our virtue. And that is centered in the practices of the people of God gathered by the Spirit around Christ's Word and the table. Love takes practice. Worship is our gymnasium. . . . -- Conclusion to James K.A. Smith's presentation Liturgical Discipleship: Worship as the Center of Spiritual … [Read more...] about James K.A. Smith on “Liturgical Discipleship”
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A Liturgy for the new year
When in the final stages of completing the new InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries (GFM) website, I came across a number of InterVarsity twentyonehundred productions videos focused on Following Christ and Human Flourishing in the context of higher education. I incorporated several of these videos into the new GFM site. Others will be shared in a variety of other GFM platforms, including here on the Emerging Scholars Network Blog :) Update (1/4/2014, 9:24 am): A Liturgy (3 min, 22 sec) is part of Get … [Read more...] about A Liturgy for the new year
Book Review: Desiring the Kingdom
Once in a while a book comes along that crystallizes the things you have been thinking and takes you further down the road. This was such a book. James K.A. Smith contends that we are primarily "desiring animals" who think rather than "thinking things" who happen to have desires. He thinks much of Christian education has followed the latter conception and crucially fails to shape Christians who live and think Christianly. This is because their approaches failure to consider the importance of desire and the practices … [Read more...] about Book Review: Desiring the Kingdom