Worship and the Reality of God by John Jefferson Davis

Author:John Jefferson Davis
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

64Cf. Gerard Loughlin on the connection between the Christian narrative and its enactment and embodiment in liturgy and worship: “The participants’ absorption into the story is made possible through their absorption of the story in and through its ritual enactment. They are not simply witnesses of the story, but characters within it” (Telling God’s Story: Bible, Church and Narrative Theology [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996], p. 223, as cited in David Torevell, Losing the Sacred: Ritual, Modernity and Liturgical Reform [Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2000], p. 10).

65In popular culture, stories of persons abducted by extraterrestrial beings—with life-transforming consequences—are generally viewed with great skepticism. To follow this sciencefiction analogy, in the act of true worship, those assembled in the name of Jesus in the presence of the Spirit do in fact have a close encounter with an extraterrestrial being from a higher world—the risen Christ who is actually present in their midst.

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